Help! I messed up my MBR : 3569
Well, that's fine, but you'll have to specify the root parbreastion and the kernel image!
Then don't do that. Select another one.
Of course you do. Don't select "boot from hard disk" for a start! Mount the intended root parbreastion on, day,mnt, and do
lilo -v -rmnt
(after having editedmnt-etc-lilo.conf to suit yourself).
Is there any point in telling us the obvious? You don't have a root parbreastion! What else would you expect?
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Becuase YOU are not selecting the right one, and you are selecting "boot from hard disk". Don't do that!
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What on earth do you mean by a "Boot" flag? DO you mean the "active" flag that you can add on a primary parbreastion (or a logical parbreastion, for all I know!). It's meaningless to linux. It's only used by msdos to select its root-boot parbreastion. What would you be "mystified" about?
Don't think. Just look first, THEN think, and do, and look again. There is no problem.
Nobody cares. There is no point in you thinking. Just look. Start SuSE or hatever rescue disk you have, and run its live cd. Mount your intended root parbreastion
mount -wndev-hda5mnt
(for example). Mount your boot parbreastion:
mount -wndev-hda6mnt-boot
(for example). Change your position to the mount:
chrootmnt
and run lilo, after editingetc-lilo.conf (i.e.mnt-etc-lilo.conf, in reality).
lilo -v
And LOOK. At every point. Do no "thinking". Base your actions on what you SEE-observe.
Peter
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