Re: Getting Linux back - pls hlp

["Arvind H Kamath" <hakamath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
  Follow the foll. steps:
1. Assuming F: as the cdrom drive.
   F:\> cd dosutils
   F:\dosutils> loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3

  Here I'm assuming hda3 as your / partition. Whichever it is ,please use that. You can find it out by using fdisk. The primary partition is /dev/hda1. Your extended partition is /dev/hda2. The first logical drive on the extended partition is /dev/hda3 and so on.
The above command will boot into linux.

2. Login as root and do the following
   root# /sbin/lilo

All will be as before.
Bye and happy linuxing.
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On Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:19:13    Rahul  Kumar wrote:
>Dear all - I've done something bad. Pls help.
>I had (have?) Linux RH5.2 on one partition and '98 on another. I boot(ed)
>with LILO.
>When i go into Windows, Norton used to ask "your boot sector has changed.
>Repair ? Continue ?" and I used to continue..
>Recently, my brother (elder) typed Repair !!! And now I dont get the LILO
>prompt, so the machine goes straight to Windows.
>
>So i used the boot/rescue diskette (made with mkbootdisk that came with 5.2)
>but it hangs saying "Cant install monitor" or something like that.
>
>How can I get Linux back without loosing / reformatting. I am sure it should
>be easy !
>
>Cheers, RK.
>
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