Re: How to repair lilo mbr?
From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 08/27/03
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:22:47 +0000 (UTC)
Geoff <harvest.time@ntlworld.com> writes:
]Hi,
]A reinstallation of Win98SE has overwritten the mbr on my hard drive, now I
]cannot boot into SuSE 8.2. I use the cd written from boot.iso in rescue
]mode and I can log in as root but when I run lilo it complains it cannot
]find /etc/lilo.conf. I have also tried mounting /dev/hda5 as reiserfs to
]/mnt which is successful and running lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf which was
]also unsuccessful. Can anybody help me with this? Thanks for looking.
With the rescue disk loaded
mount the disk partition containing /etc
mkdir /newroot
mount /dev/hda1 /newroot
lilo -r /newroot
and there you are.
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