Knoppix won't boot after HD install

**ixalarx** · 01-18-2005, 11:54 PM

All right. I decided to boot from CD and run fsck on my root partition. It fixed an INCREDIBLE nunber of disk errors, now partitionmagic says that the ext2 superblock contains illegal information (I'm running ext3). At this point I'd like to just uninstall lilo from my MBR, format my partitions, and just try installing knoppix again. Is there anny way to get rid of lilo without booting from the HD? Again, thanks for all the help.

**franz29** · 01-19-2005, 08:52 AM

fdisk /MBR (fdisk from mikysoft)

**franz29** · 01-19-2005, 09:01 AM

wait !!
you sait your nt loader is still working so lilo isn't on your MBR so do nothing

to see if lilo is on mbr do

boot from cd
in console sudo hexedit /dev/hda and look for LILO in the first line
FA EB 21 01 B6 01 4C 49 4C 4F 16 05 ..!...LILO..