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I have lost the lilo on master boot hd (two system, winxp + linux), how to restore the choice.
From livecd, i have not the permission to write hda, i have change the permissions for this.
Thx (french man)
I believe your lilo.conf is still intact, with no errors, please check.
What you have to do is boot your knoppix cd with cheatcode
knoppix 2 so that you can go straight to commandline.
I believe your xp partition is hda1.
Type this:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
chroot /mnt/hda1
lilo
then reboot : shutdown -r now
mzilikazi
07-26-2004, 12:49 PM
I believe your lilo.conf is still intact, with no errors, please check.
What you have to do is boot your knoppix cd with cheatcode
knoppix 2 so that you can go straight to commandline.
I believe your xp partition is hda1.
Type this:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
chroot /mnt/hda1
lilo
then reboot : shutdown -r now
That won't work. You can't run lilo from windows! You need to mount the drive you installed Linux to not your windows partition. If you installed Linux to /dev/hda2 then:
su
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
chroot /mnt/hda2
lilo -v
CTRL+D (to exit chroot)
reboot
I would suggest booting completely into KDE so that you have your web browser and any other tools you need to fix your mbr.
Thx to all for your support, it's perfect the solution is correct.
I have tried the mzilikazi solution from cdlive and i have now my old system multiboot.
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