lilo or grub re-installation

Scott Lanning slanning at BUPHY.bu.edu
Fri Feb 22 17:33:25 EST 2002


On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Michael . wrote:
>I used a recovery disk and it gave me a kernel panic error message.

Is it the original recovery disk created during installation?
Maybe the kernel on the floppy jumps to the wrong partition.
I guess you don't have grub on a floppy?

Reviewing, all of a sudden grub wouldn't let you boot.
Something caused that, but I don't know what it is.
If all you did was `fdisk /mbr`, your data is still
there. However, if whatever caused the bootup to fail
has hosed something.. who knows?

>On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Michael . wrote:
>>"fdisk /mbr".I wanted to know if LILO or GRUB
>>can be installed from within windows
>
>Dunno, but another idea is to use a rescue disk (floppy/CD)
>to boot into Linux.




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