[Nottingham] reinstalling boot loader

James Gibbon james.gibbon at virgin.net
Tue Mar 9 23:14:07 GMT 2004


Carl Ebrey wrote:

> 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).
> 

WFM as well - many thanks.  I knew that copy of Demolinux 3.0 would
come in handy :)





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