Sounds like you hosed up LILO. Reinstall LILO to your Knoppix partition and see if that works. I presume you are still able to boot wimpdoze?Originally Posted by Tortoise
I have a win2000 system, with a linux partition, I use smart boot manager on a floppy to boot to Linux, so that the machine boots to win unless the floppy is in the drive, in which case it boot to linux.
I recently expanded my ext2 linux partition using Partition Magic in windows, and now it will not boot, smart boot manager starts to boot, but then the screen fills with 9 9 9 9 9 9 etc.
Can I repair this without reinstalling? If so, how....
Thanks!
Sounds like you hosed up LILO. Reinstall LILO to your Knoppix partition and see if that works. I presume you are still able to boot wimpdoze?Originally Posted by Tortoise
Looks like that is what has happened - I can still boot 'doze, can you talk me through reinstalling lilo?
Thanks
I only have time for a quick version:
Boot the Knoppix cd (remember it is a rescue disk too!).
Mount your Knoppix partition.
chroot /mnt/hda?
/sbin/lilo
Sorry!
I get a lot of
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I have changed the drive to be read / write, and am root.
Appreciate your help,
When I run lilo I get
Unrecognized token "! Please edit /etc/lilo.conf before running lilo!" at or above line 20 in file '/etc/lilo.conf'
Sorry!
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount /mnt/hda3
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mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda3 is already mounted on /mnt/hda3
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# chroot /mnt/hda3
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Thanks!
I got it working again with:
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
sudo chroot /mnt/hda3
sudo /sbin/lilo
Appreciate the help, the best 24/7 service agreement I have ever seen!
Glad you got it fixed. Now quit it with that partition magic nonsense already! :P
I would love to! I don't know anything else that can mess around with NTFS partitions though - any clues?
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