Re: [TCLUG:688] Late Install of LILO

["Brian E. Seppanen" <seppanen@pconline.com>]

Richard Seymour wrote:
> 
> Duringone of my reboots somewhere along the line I trashed my master boot
> record, so when I tried booting I got LI instead of LILO. I replaced the
> master boot record with the DOS command fdisk /mbr, and I am now booting
> Red Hat Linux 5.1 from a floppy.
> 
> How do I reinstall LILO so I don't need to boot from the floppy?

I've attached a copy of my lilo.conf.  It's pretty straightforward. 
Modify it to your needs.  You may still have your old lilo.conf to use. 
Put it in /etc and run /sbin/lilo from the command line.  

You may need to /sbin/lilo -u and then reinstall it however.
HTH
Brian Seppanen
seppanen@pconline.com
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
other=/dev/hda1
	label=win
	table=/dev/hda
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34-2
	label=linux
	root=/dev/hda2
	read-only
	append="mem=64M"
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34-1
	label=linux.old
	root=/dev/hda2
	read-only
	append="mem=64M"