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Re: lost lilo



On Tue, 01 Dec 1998 17:48:12 +0200, Simcha Rothman <rothmar@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I recently installed win98 on top of my Win95.
>the installation erased the lilo boot that was on my boot record
>i tried starting linux with the loadlin command found on red hat cdrom
>but the command reported : Kernel Panic could not mount root FS
>I tried to make a  boot disk with Rawrite and the same accrued.
>any Idea Anyone???
Yes. You need a floppy rescue boot disk. I highly recommend tomsrtbt (look for
it in freshmeat, as I can't remember the URL).

Download the DOS distribution, which starts from LOADLIN and prompts you for a
floppy, which is then formatted for 1.72MB, and contains a complete Linux
system with all the tools needed for a rescue disk.

boot your computer with the floppy, mount your root partition, and re-run lilo
with the -r parameter to select your root. reboot, and you're done.

NOTE: I *think* your Win95/98 setup should also boot, if it worked before you
upgraded to 98.(did the boot sector change from Win95 to Win98??).

>Thanks
>
>Simcha

Udi