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Date: 2002-04-27 07:06:16 PST

> Boom, my Dual Boot menu disappeared! My laptop now always boot
> in Win2k! I know my RH7.2 is there? How do I install back lilo ONLY!!!

There is two ways to do this

The slow way: Take your RH7.2 CD, choose to make an update, this will in the end allow you to let to reinstall the lilo. Takes a long time on a slow computer as it will really try to update your RH7.2
The fast way: Take your RH7.2 CD, choose 'linux rescue', say yes to scan/mount your system. When you get the shell prompt, type 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' (can be that the path is wrong, you find it in /mnt), when the new prompt appears, just type '/sbin/lilo', when finished, just type 'exit' and then 'exit' and all you have to do is to remove the CD and you will reboot to lilo-menu.

J.O. Aho

LILO Question

You will have to boot into linux with a boot (rescue) floppy.. You made one right?? ;-)

At the lilo prompt from the floopy, type root=/dev/xxxxx where xxxxx is your Linux root drive. login as root at the console, and run lilo again

That will restore lilo to the MBR on the drive. You MAY want to check /etc/lilo.conf 1st tho, and make any changes that you need to, if you changed something in the Win2k partition.

Dave Rich

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> 1st : Nop. I don't have a rescue disk for Linux.....I know I should have
> made
> one....So, how do I make one.
>
> 2nd : Initially I didn't have lilo installed on the MBR. I had it installed
> on /tmp/hda2 which I made as a bootable disk. So, I guess my question is
> shouldn't I have to put it back there again?
>
> Here's the topology for my laptop. It had Win2k+Linux RH7.2!!!!
>
>              Bootable Flag
>                      |
>                      V
> /tmp/hda1        4GB   C:  Win95/FAT32 <--- Primary
> /tmp/hda2   *   16MB /boot Linux <-- Primary That's where I put LILO
> initially!!!!)
> /tmp/hda3       20GB D:  HPFS/NTFS
> /tmp/hda4       4.6GB     Extended
> /tmp/hda5       3.8GB     Linux
> /tmp/hda6       787MB    SWAP

I have the same problem happened to me. I had to use DOS fdisk to change the Linux partition to active. After doing that, I am now boot to Linux boot menu, which let me choose to either boot to Windows 2000 or Linux.

Lee Vang

LILO Question

> I have the same problem happened to me.  I had to use DOS fdisk to change
> the Linux partition to active.  After doing that, I am now boot to Linux

Lee, Thank You!!! I did it and I am back to my dual boot!!!