[techtalk] LI error and getting back into Linux....

curious curious at curious.org
Fri Jul 21 17:43:12 EST 2000


if you having serious issues with lilo you might want to investigate using
loadlin w/ multi-config.sys


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On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Robert Wade wrote:

> Well, if you made a linux boot diskette at startup (mandrake asks if you
> want to during the installation time, iirc), you can just boot into that,
> and then you can run the lilo installer and make a fresh lilo MBR (so to
> speak) with the command 'lilo' after you log in. 
> 
> If you did not make a boot diskette, I'm at a loss as to how you can fix
> your situation. If this is the case, I'm sorry...
> 
> Robert Wade
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Megan McGuire wrote:
> 
> > I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and it loaded and everything but when it
> > restarted my puter it gave me an LI so I just used a dos startup disk and
> > did fdisk \mbr so I got back into windows is there any way I can get into
> > linux now?
> > thanx
> > -= eliet at ntsj.com =-
> > -= Megan  McGuire =-
> > -= http://eliet.ntsj.com =-
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