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Master of Reality:
here's the situation: I formatted my windows (main) partion, installed linux-mandrake, then installed windows on my main partition again.
when i installed windows it wrote over the boot sector where LILO was, now i cant get into linux. I tried using my linux boot disk, but it didnt work. I can use my linux CD and get into rescue mode,but how do i re-"install" LILO as my boot loader instead of windows automatically booting itself?

voidmain:
type /sbin/lilo after booting your hard disk from a boot floppy. If you didn't make a boot floppy you can boot to your hard disk from a Linux install floppy or CD. You'll need to know which partition you installed the Linux root partition on and when you get to the LILO prompt from booting CD or floppy type:

LILO: linux root=/dev/hda2

That assumes you installed Linux on your second partition. After fully booted type "/sbin/lilo" as I stated above. If you are not sure which partition you installed Linux on just try again until you find the right one by changing "/dev/hda2" to "/dev/hda3", 4, 5 etc...

[ March 24, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Master of Reality:
my boot floppy wont work properly, it loads a bit then says "boot failed".
I got into rescue mode, but "/sbin/lilo" wont work in rescue mode, and i cant get to /etc/lilo.conf either. I can get power quest boot magic for windows and use it to load linux, and then decide if i want to keep boot magic or switch to LILO

[ March 24, 2002: Message edited by: Druaga ]

jtpenrod:
For multi-boot systems, my preference is GRUB instead of LILO. On my system, I have Win 95, Mandrake, Red Hat and QNX. GRUB boots them all with no trouble at all. Since I've got 13GB left free, I'm planning on the new SuSE when it comes out next month, and I'm not anticipating any problems adding that one too.
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foobar:
Maybe your boot floppy is corrupted?
Try raw-writing an image to a floppy. I thought that mandrake had a special win-rawrite tool for that. On the CD should be a HOWTO about raw writing.

And, void, wasn't it:

LILO: mount root=/dev/hdx ro

To let it fsck the root partition?

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