Help getting into linux/windows again.

[oosterhouse]

Ok, so I installed SuSE 10 the other night and it had grub on it to boot windows and suse, but not pclinuxos, so I took suse off by formatting the partitions that it was on, and now when I boot up my pc it brings up Grub but it has an error. My question is:

How do I get lilo to start again? (I still have pclinuxos and windows installed)

My /etc/lilo.conf file:

o boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
default="pclinuxos"
keytable=/boot/livecd.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-oci6.mdk-i586-up-1GB
label="pclinuxos"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-oci6.mdk-i586-up-1GB.img
append="noapic nolapic acpi=ht nomce psmouse.proto=imps splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only

other=/dev/hda1
label="win_c"

My /etc/lilo.conf.old file:

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

default="linux"
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
keytable=/boot/us.klt
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="noapic nolapic acpi=ht splash=silent"
vga=788

Do I have to take my lilo.conf.old file and make it my lilo.conf file? I thought that might work but I'm not sure so I'm waiting. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.

[oz]

This should get you going again...

http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/RestoreLilo

[oosterhouse]

Thank you..it worked, and I got back into windows atleast, although my pclinuxos installation has something wrong with it. It brought up some errors when I tried to boot into it and it asked if I wanted to repair it, I said yes, but then another error. So I might just get rid of pclinux and try a different distro in its place, unless I can fix it.

[oz]

I've never been able to get PCLinuxOS running correctly on my boxes although I've tried various versions of it about half a dozen different times. Sorry it's not working out for you either. From what I hear, it works beautifully for some folks.

[oosterhouse]

It works great for me most of the time, this is the first time I've had trouble with it.