[ILUG] uh oh... mbr problems

[Simon Curtis]

Thanks all for the help. Yeah.. don't have a boot disk for windows or dos.. 
or at least can't find it, so the only way for me to get in to dos / windows 
is by fixing lilo, which I should be able to do thanks to you guys :-) 
Fingers crossed that the boot sector for windows is ok (I think it should 
be.. I didn't go near any of its partition when installing suse).

Simon.


>From: Liam Bedford <*@lbedford.org>
>To: Simon Curtis <fianna_simon at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [ILUG] uh oh... mbr problems
>Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:58:39 +0100
>
>On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:48:54PM -0000, Simon Curtis came forth with:
> >
>boot suse.
>
>
>assuming Windows on on /dev/hda1 (change this if it's not), then
>add:
>
>other=/dev/hda1
>	label=windows
>
>to /etc/lilo.conf
>
>and then run /sbin/lilo
>
>for the lil- problem.. check the man page for lilo (if you boot from the
>linux cd)... from my debian machine:
>    LIL-   The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a
>     geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map
>     installer.
>
>sounds like you didn't rerun lilo correctly (if you are booting linux from
>the CD, and it's not mounting the partition correctly, you may have to do
>something like:
>/mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt
>)
>
>btw, if you have a windows boot disk, a quick way to fix the problem for 
>the
>moment is to boot it, and run
>fdisk /mbr
>which will put a windows mbr on.
>
>Then grab the SuSE kernel and loadlin from the cd, and boot windows to
>DOS. Then do
>loadlin linux root=/dev/hda5
>(swap the kernel name for linux, and the root partition for hda5)
>
>then you should get a real linux boot, and lilo should work again.
>
>Regards
>L.
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