[Gllug] Mandrake installation- installing boot loader

Daniel Andersson daniel at septum.org
Sat Oct 19 11:30:05 UTC 2002


you should have created a bootdisk ;o)


never installed mandrake, but you should be able to boot the cd, and then
fix lilo from the command prompt
(if it gives you one?)

/ d

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Black" <andrew at black1.org.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 12:29 PM
Subject: [Gllug] Mandrake installation- installing boot loader


> Hi
> I have just finished a madrake installation but now suffer from the minor
> irritation that I can'boot :-).
> If I try and boot it takes me to the compaq utitlies in a small partition
at
> the front of the disk.
>
> I wasnt paying attention at the point where it asked me about boot
loaders,
> and I suspect that the answer is I need to put LILO on.
> How can I change the boot options without having to reinstall the whole of
> Linux?
>
> Or is there anything else I should be checking for.
>
>
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