You also will need a linux boot disk. If you did not make one, you might
want to grab the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card image and burn one. The
BBC is a very handy thing to have. It has saved me many a time.

http://lbt.linuxcare.com/index.epl

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, crash3m wrote:

> Eric,
>
> at the command prompt as root do this.
>
> ls /etc/lilo.*
>
> if there is a lilo.conf~ and you have not ran lilo more than once since the
> update you can....
>
> mv /etc/lilo.conf~ /etc/lilo.conf
>
> then.
>
> lilo
>
> also..
>
> do you get some type of error when trying to boot to linux? if you do any
> information/error message you give can help us correct your problem a lot
> more easy
>
> On Friday 21 September 2001 22:20, you wrote:
> > Well, no sooner than I introduce myself I have a problem.  I installed
> > Mandrake Linux 8.0 over one month ago.  This evening, upon returning to my
> > computer, which had been in Win ME mode, I had a message from Norton
> > Antivirus the my master boot record had changed.  Because I had downloaded
> > a Quake 3 update today, I thought it may have contained a virus and
> > selected the  option to restore my old master boot record.  Now lilo does
> > not load, and I can only boot Windows ME.  Is there a way I can reload lilo
> > without reloading all of linux?  I am a Linux newbie, but I am fairly
> > proficient in windows.Thanks in advance for the help.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > J. Eric Gilliland
> > jegilliland@hotmail.com
> > Meet it is I set it down, that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
> > Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5Get more from the Web.  FREE MSN Explorer download :
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