Quoting Thomas Eibner (thomas at stderr.net): > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 04:37:58AM +0000, chegney at att.net wrote: > > Hi first time poster here, I need some help. > > > > I had a dual boot Windows98/RedHat Linux setup. I was > > using LILO as my boot loader. I have lost lilo on my > > first hard drive and now I can't boot Linux on my second > > hard drive. The only boot disk I have is my RedHat > > install cd. Can some one explain to me how I can boot to > > rescue mode on the cd and then restore lilo??? > > It's been a while since I had to do it, so it's off the top of my head: > > On the install cd's prompt: > > boot root=/dev/hdb<partition> > > and then run lilo (maybe change the layout when you get there?) > THEN do a man mkbootdisk, I cannot tell you how important this is. All our boxes have emergency boot disks. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9