[ale] Ok, I'm really hosed now.

[Michael Barker]

Kevin Krumwiede wrote:

> When you boot from the Mandrake rescue CD, can you still see your partitions
> with fdisk?  Do you know/remember what all your partitions are and where
> they are supposed to be mounted?  If so, you should be able to recover
> everything using LILO.

Yes I can see everything with fdisk...

> Mount the partitions containing kernel images
> somewhere (doesn't matter where) and create a lilo.conf file that specifies
> the partitions you want to boot and the kernels *named as they are mounted
> on your rescue system*.  Then use lilo -c yourlilo.conf (I think that's the
> switch) to set up a new bootloader.

When I boot rescue it mounts my system under /mnt.  Whenever I run lilo
I always chroot /mnt first.  Is this not the same thing?  If it is, that
has not worked.
 
> This will get you back into Mandrake.  As for fixing the MBR on your Windows
> drive... I am not certain, but I think it always contains exactly the same
> thing, i.e., someone with the same version of Windows you're using could dd
> their MBR to a file and send it to you... anyone know for sure?
> 
> Krum

Again the windows install can be sacrificed, it has no important data
and I rarely use it.  I only need it now because my cable provider has
not written their utility interfaces cross browser compatible and I need
to use IE.

Below is my lilo.conf

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label=linux
	root=/dev/hdc1
	append=" hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet"
	vga=788
	read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label=linux-nonfb
	root=/dev/hdc1
	append=" hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount"
	read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label=failsafe
	root=/dev/hdc1
	append=" hdd=ide-scsi devfs=mount failsafe"
	read-only
other=/dev/fd0
	label=floppy
	unsafe
other=/dev/hda1
	label=windows
	table=/dev/hda
	map-drive=0x80
	    to=0x81
	map-drive=0x81
	    to=0x80
End Of lilo.conf

Below is my partition table:

Device		Boot...	     ...Id	System
/dev/hdc1	*		83	Linux
/dev/hdc2			5	Extended
/dev/hdc5			82	Swap
/dev/hdc6			83	Linux
/dev/hdc7			83	Linux
/dev/hdc8			83	Linux
End Of partition table

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