sn8kman Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 (edited) I just wanted to post about a problem I had because I previously wiped the entire hard drive to solve the issue, but turns out there was an easy fix. After I reinstalled, was configuring the new MDE-KDE3.5.2 and hosed my lilo MBR somehow. I got L 99 99 99 99 99 etc when booting and couldn't get into Lilo or linux. Here's what I did: boot off the install DVD (CD) <F1> when first menu appears type rescue **may be optional** select reinstall bootloader - got errors hit <enter> select console type chroot /mnt type type lilo -M /dev/sda **note-this is my root hard drive. if you have a SATA hard drive for booting use this. If you have an IDE hard drive type lilo -M /dev/hda** type rescue-gui select reboot !all fixed! :woot_jump: Again, please correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what I did. BTW: I love the smilies! Edited April 21, 2006 by sn8kman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 Looks good to me dude :P I checked the man page, and it's all correct for writing it back to the MBR. I'm not sure what the "rescue-gui" does, unless it loads the menu back up to select stuff from (like reinstall lilo), so this prob isn't normally required. The only thing I would normally do is exit the menu to the command prompt and then reinstall the boot loader using the lilo command like you did. Then I would type "exit" to get out of the chrooted environment and then do: cd / umount /mnt reboot this just a cleaner way of closing your system down after doing the lilo stuff. But you did good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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