The biggest linux question of the month.

From: Sojourner (Sojourner!SEVEN!_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/14/03 

Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 02:47:50 GMT

Well, ok...got you to read it didn't I?

Actually, its very important.

Once in a while, my boot floppy that I use to boot Suse fails to work or
Lilo goes scrappy on my and I can't boot Suse.

I've already lerned from experience that it is best to not use the MBR
because I run another OS too and it could screw that on up, so I use a boot
floppy and everyone is happy.......except when that thing stops working.

So, the QUESTION is:

How do I make a lilo boot disk again without having to "install" linux all
over again. (I normally just use existing partitions and make a stripped
down install, but it still take 20 munutes. Luckily everything is still
there and still works)

I certainly would like to be able to fix the bootloader and all without a
reinstall. 

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