[Nottingham] reinstalling boot loader

[Carl Ebrey]

James Gibbon wrote:
> Speaking of bootloaders, I upgraded the Windows partition of my 
> laptop to XP a week or so ago, intending to install Xandros later.  
> However, I've decided not to bother with Xandros for the time 
> being, so - how can I reinstall GRUB or LILO, so I can run the
> existing Slackware setup?
> 

Assuming there's already a (correct) lilo.conf on your slackware 
partition...

Boot from a live CD distro, such as Knoppix and then do something like:

$ mount /dev/hdX /mnt/somemountpoint
$ chroot /mnt/somemountpoint lilo
$ umount /mnt/somemountpoint
$ reboot

This is how I've done it in the past, and it WFM(TM).

HTH,

Carl
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