[PLUG] LILO + PartitionMagic == BAD!

[Ryan E. Helfter]

Boot off a slackware boot disk

(i.e. download rawrite.exe and base.i from ftp.slackware.com)

when you get to the lilo prompt of the floppy type "mount root=/dev/hda1"
(or whichever is your linux partition) let it boot, run /sbin/lilo -P this
should fix corrupt partiion tables.  Since you moved the linear and
sector/head/cylineder addresses around with Partition Magic.

reboot machine to check.  You may have to run lilo -U and then lilo again
to reinstall.

good luck, dont know why, but a lot of times this doesnt work after you
have corrupted the MBR with such said utilities.

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Hayden Christopher Olenik wrote:

> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:56:16 -0500
> From: Hayden Christopher Olenik <olenik@purdue.edu>
> To: plug@csociety.purdue.edu, gavan@udel.edu
> Subject: [PLUG] LILO + PartitionMagic == BAD!
> 
> Okay, I know, I shouldn't have been in Windows anyway, but I used
> PartitionMagic 4.0 to adjust the sizes of my partitions and to create a
> new one. Now, when it tries to boot, it says 'LI' and then stops. If I
> use a boot disk (Windows98 Setup Disk or the RH6.2 setup/rescue disk)
> then I can get to the drives, so I don't think the data has been
> corrupted. I think PartitionMagic just messed up my MBR. Does anyone
> know how to reinstall LILO there, or to remove LILO from there and put
> LILO on the partition (/dev/hda2)? Any help would be appreciated, my
> Vaio is just a hunk of plastic right now. E-mail me at olenik@purdue.edu
> or post to the PLUG newsgroup. Thanks.
> 
> Hayden
> 
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