[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: re-installing lilo[was Tcl/Tk]

[aal]

Allen Flick wrote:

> alh wrote:
>
> > > My Linux went dead when my son convinced me to
> > > upgrade to Win98 and I haven't been able to restore
> > > Linux yet.
> > >
> >
> > did you make bootdisk during your linux install before the 98 upgrade?
>
> I appreciate the offer here, but I was total dumbass & had not made
> a bootdisk.  I made one for 5.1 when I first installed.  I had lots of
> trouble getting my monitor to run under 5.1.  I'm not a real hacker
> type, so that was absolutely zero fun.  Anyway, upgraded to 5.2 with
> out a hitch.  Everything was great until updating to Win98 redid the
> MBR and Lilo wouldn't come back up.
>
> I fiddled & fiddled.  Used SuSE & booted from CD and thought I
> had a clue.  Lost my mind there, & at one point while my son was
> *helping* me I noticed that under fdisk the partitions were flagged
> with a warning, or some such, about not ending on a cylinder boundary.
>
> So, I booted off my RH CD managed to get in as root only.  Tried &

BINGO

if you can get in as root , do so
run lilo
you should see someting like

Added linux *
Added dos
(your entries will differ)


and it is fixed



>
> retried but could never get any of my assigned users to come up.  If
> I didn't log in as root, the entry would die at the login screen.  So, I
> went in as root, saved (with another dose of great pain!) the data I
> had created.
>
> Since then, all I've done is cry into my soggy cereal and talk about
> doing a total reinstall, but I haven't worked up enough nerve to try
> doing it yet.  I've just got some strange fear that something else will
> go wrong.
>
> That's where I stand though.
>
> =================================================
>   Allen Flick : Research is what I'm doing when
>                 I don't know what I'm doing.
> =================================================
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