Re: Unable to recover RedHat after a Windows 2000 install
From: A. Ben Hmeda (abhRemove_at_canada.com)
Date: 07/19/03
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 02:59:27 GMT
Lenard wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 05:13:29 +0000, A. Ben Hmeda wrote:
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>>I'm obviously new to this (Win2K) thing, I haven't used windows since I
>>discovered Caldera 2.3! but for the wife, I installed Win2K Pro on a
>>separate drive (hda), my RedHat9 resides in (hdb), consequenly wiping
>>out lilo from MBR. In an attempt to recover and since my RH9 rescue
>>floppy got corrupted, I tried booting from CD and typed root=/dev/hdb1
>>and got [no kernel image in hdb1...] then booted from CD again, this
>>time I opted to "upgrade" to RH9 with the option of re-installing lilo
>>into mbr, I finished and rebooted and got [Li ..], system stopped. I
>>have also tried GRUB in mbr and in the boot sector of hdb, got the error
>>[missing operating system]. On my machine, I am able to assign which HD
>>to boot from, tried both. Any help is greatly appreciated
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> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-boot.html
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> From here, create your new boot floppy and re-install your bootloader.
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> You can also use the Windows 2000 boot loader to boot the system, if you
> desire; http://www.redhat.com/advice/tips/dualboot.html
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I found the answer in the first link, thanks to you, I recovered.
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