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by shanghai sam

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I had both operating systems (linux and windows 98) installed on my system. Due to some errors i had to install windows 98 again. But after installation lilo has vanished. Now how am i supposed to access my linux operating system?...and if i can't, so what should i do to retrieve that hard disk partition?

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by shanghai sam

The fix for this is too boot with the Boot disk created from the Linux install (hopefully you made this) if not you will need to boot to the Linux install boot disk and run through setup again, your previous linux partitions will still be there, runthrough the setup choosing to not install any or limitied programs and files and the lilo bootloader will reconfigure itself after this is done. Good Luck

by eugen prokopiev

If you created boot floppy during Linux setup procedure, you need to boot from it, log in as root and type "lilo" at command prompt. If not, try to boot from Linux CD-ROM into "rescue mode", then mount your Linux partition to, for example, /mnt/foo and say "chroot /mnt/foo lilo".

Eugen

by francodacosta

When you install windows it erases the mbr (and therefor lilo), and replaces it with the windows boot loader.

To reinstall lilo you can use your linux installation disk, as if you where installing linux again, then in the lilo prompt type "linux root=/dev/hda1" (assuming your root partition is hda1), login and then type "lilo2 to reinstall lilo

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