07-11-2001
Thanks for the offer, I appreciate it. However, I am now the owner of a fresh install of Mandrake. I needed a fresh install anyways... and being my 3rd attempt at it, I have a cleaner system too. However, if someone else was looking for a way around the "crash and burn" method, I did get a reply from a friend of mine who is quite a bit more experienced than myself. Here's what he suggests:
"You need a linux boot disk or linux rescue disk. Another way, most distributions when boot from cd usually give you a rescue option of some sort. If you get into linux all you have to do is type "/sbin/lilo" and it will reinstall lilo. and yet one more option is to install linux bare with nothing on it onto another partition. When it boots, edit the lilo.conf file and tell it to boot the origional linux partition. Run "/sbin/lilo" then reboot and it should boot into the origional linux then you can delete the dummy version."
With Mandrake, you can simply pop in the 1st cd, hit F1, use the rescue option, and do as above to fix LILO, if you're lucky. Regardless, thanks for the offer once again. People on this forum just rock!
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installboot
installboot(1M) installboot(1M)
NAME
installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition
SYNOPSIS
installboot bootblk raw-disk-device
The boot(1M) program, ufsboot, is loaded from disk by the bootblock program which resides in the boot area of a disk partition.
The ufs boot objects are platform-dependent, and reside in the /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs directory. The platform name can be
found using the -i option of uname(1).
The installboot utility is a SPARC only program. It is not supported on the architecture. users should use installgrub(1M) instead.
bootblk The name of the bootblock code.
raw-disk-device The name of the disk device onto which the bootblock code is to be installed; it must be a character device which is read-
able and writable. Naming conventions for a SCSI or IPI drive are c?t?d?s? and c?d?s? for an IDE drive.
Example 1: Installing UFS Boot Block
To install a ufs boot block on slice 0 of target 0 on controller 1 of the platform where the command is being run, use:
example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
/usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs
directory where ufs boot objects reside.
/platform/platform-name/ufsboot
second level program to boot from a disk or CD
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
od(1), uname(1), boot(1M), init(1M), kadb(1M), kernel(1M), monitor(1M), reboot(1M), rpc.bootparamd(1M), init.d(4), attributes(5)
WARNINGS
The installboot utility fails if the bootblk or openfirmware files do not exist or if the raw disk device is not a character device.
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