[PLUG] LILO + PartitionMagic == BAD!

[Hayden Olenik]

Thanks to everyone who helped me. In my various attempts to restore the MBR,
I accidentally deleted LILO, and because I was using RPM 4, I couldn't
reinstall rh6.2, so now I'm using rh6.9 (7.0Beta 'Pinstripe"). This has rpm4
and the added bonus of XFree86 4.0.1 which detects and supports my NeoMagic
25AV+ video card. Cool beans. Anyway, just wanted to let you all know I'm up
and running again. When's the next meeting?

Hayden

"Ryan E. Helfter" wrote:

> 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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