Re: The biggest linux question of the month.

From: Anthony Youngman (Anthony.Youngman_at_ECA-International.com)
Date: 07/14/03 

Date: 14 Jul 2003 10:48:20 -0700

Sojourner <Sojourner!SEVEN!@cox.net> wrote in message news:<55i9u-615.ln1@sojosbox.local.home>...
> Well, ok...got you to read it didn't I?
>

>
> 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.
>
As an alternative, can't you install lilo in the PBR? (ie instead of
/dev/hda, do /dev/hdax where x is your linux partition)

Then all you have to do is use that other OS to mark the linux
partition active, and up comes lilo ...

Don't know why you don't like lilo in the MBR. Except on one system (a
new 8.2 insatll that put grub in), all the pcs I've used have used
lilo in the MBR to multi-boot. My current main system has SuSE 8.2,
Win2K Server, XP, and 98, all coexisting and booted initially by lilo.
It also had debian, but I had "issues" when I upgraded SuSE ... gentoo
will probably appear soon.

Cheers,
Wol

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