[olug] Getting LILO back

[Daniel Pfile]

Did you get my email about grub? I'm not kidding, it's really easy 
compared to lilo, and better.

Here's how to do it

1: Create a grub boot floppy according to the manual from within windows
2: Figure out what disk and partition linux is on, ide and scsi are not 
distinguised, it goes by what the bios sees, i'll use the second disk, 
first partition for the example (1,0). Then figure out which device 
LINUX thinks the root / partition is on, i'll use /dev/sda1 for my example.
3: Figure out where your kernel is, i'll use /vmlinuz for an example, 
you may have one in /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17, and so on, grub 
supports command line completion, so just start typing at the grub 
prompt and hit tab to fill in the names of files.
4: Stick the floppy in, reboot computer
5: At grub> prompt, type: 'grub> kernel hd(1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1'
6: add any other kernel options you want (in addition to root=/dev/sda1) 
by putting a space and the option for example: 'grub> hd(1,0)/vmlinuz 
root=/dev/sda1 mem=256M single'
7: hit enter
8: if it finds the kernel, it will respond with a message saying so.
9: type 'grub> boot'
10: watch linux boot

check out the grub manual, web page, faq for more information on how to 
put grub on your hard disk it's self, make a cool looken menu, make it 
load 98, nt, w2k, fbsd, etc, etc, etc.

- Daniel

Jay Woods wrote:
> 
> I want to thank everybody for their help. Unfortunately nothing is working out. I have
> been able to boot up with tomsrtbt - 1.7.101 and my stuff is still there. However:
> 
>     I haven't been able to boot up from the CD-ROM (for example, Linux Mandrake v7.02).
>     I can boot up on the emergency boot disk with the command at LILO of linux
> root=/dev/hdb6 BUT it always tries to boot to hda6 which isn't there.
>     I have been able to set up a new lilo.conf file that has hdb6 instead of hda6 BUT
> when I run lilo at the root command line, it refuses to write to the MBR saying
> something about it isn't marked for it.
> 
> I'm ready to pay for somebody to come and fix it. ---Jay
> 


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