[ale] rescue disk?

[Gary S. MacKay]

Boot from any linux floppy such that you can get to a command prompt. Then
manually mount the partition(s) and run lilo. That should fix the MBR I
think. You probably do not have to mount all of the partitions, but at
least the one(s) that contains /etc and the lilo command. 

- Gary

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On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, joshy wrote:

> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 14:42:33 +0000
> From: joshy <joshy at mindspring.com>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] rescue disk?
> 
> 
> this is a rather embarassing question...
> 
> 
> I need to build a rescue disk for a RedHat 6.1 (Cartman) computer.  I
> couldn't find a rescue.img in the 6.1 distribution so I downloaded
> rescue.img from a 5.2 distribution and put it on a floppy using rawrite,
> but the 5.2 install disk said it couldn't find a valid rescue.img on the
> floppy.
> 
> 
> You see, I got a new 60GB harddrive and my BIOS can't read it. I tried
> Maxtor's MaxBlast software to trick the computer into reading more than
> 32GB, but it blew away lilo, and I, um, neglected to create a custom 
> rescue disk earlier. (i'll take my lashings now, thank you).  All I need
> to do is to boot Linux so that I can reinstall lilo.
> 
> Of course, this won't help the bigger issue of getting Linux to see the
> full 60GB drive. My BIOS hangs when I boot the drive in a normal
> configuration and if I set the "limit cylinders" jumper it only sees a
> 32GB drive. any ideas? is my only choice to get a new motherboard that can
> handle large drives?
> 
> thanks,
> - joshy
> 
> 
> 
> 
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