How to reinstall LILO

[majorwoo]

did you have grub installed? If you had LILO it would have said LILO when you booted, if you had GRUB it would have had a pretty blue screen with a RedHat in the back

If you had grub the easiest way I know of to put it back is to boot off the CD, select UPGRADE existing system - check the box for select speficic packages to upgrade, and install the smp-kerne(its towards the bottom under the category kernel)l, tell it to create a new boot loader config (as it probably wont find one) and let it install the additional kernel - the smp kernel should boot fine on a single processor system(its designed for multiple processor systems)

One that is done you can edit the /etc/grub.conf file back -- anyway, get that done and

cd /boot && ls vmlinux*

this will tell us what kernels you had installed so we can get you back to work


<-- Ifi anyone knows a simpler way please let me know as I would be interested in it, I have not read much on grub so there very well could be one

[Dolda2000]

Majorwoo: Just create a GRUB boot floppy and (boot it and) use grub's own installation command. See info grub for more info.

[majorwoo]

i figured there was something like that

[homeworldfan]

Thanks everyone, I guess my real problem was not in reinstalling GRUB. In order for me to be able to boot linux from XOSL (a boot lodar i am used to) i had to install BRUB on the linux partition, not MBR. So, now I boot from XOSL to BRUB and boot to linux from there. Problem solved, thank you.

HWF

[majorwoo]

so what is this XOSL and what does it provide that you need to install it to boot to grub???

[homeworldfan]

Oh it is just a boot loader with a few handy feature (which I am sure grub has) and a windows-li interface.I am just used to it, and it is already set up for my Windows'. If you are really interested you might check out this:

http://home.wanadoo.nl/geurt/


HWF