Boot Disk

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Gene Dascher wrote:

> I am working on my system at home and I screwed up!  I needed to
> reinstall Win98, and in doing so, I wiped LILO out!  I since created a
> boot floppy using mkbootdisk on another system with a different kernel,
> etc.  Can I edit the lilo.conf file on the boot floppy so it points to
> the root drive on my other system?  If I can, then I can just run lilo
> -v and reinstate LILO on that system.

I'm not sure about doing this with a different kernel, but I've had luck
using the bootable install CD in "rescue" mode, or even a tomsrtbt
floppy.  

Mount your hard drive (mount /dev/hda5 /mnt -t ext2) and then chroot
/mnt, you should be able to just run /sbin/lilo and restore the loader.