Re: LILO not booting after resizing partition.

[Craig Woods <drjung sprynet com>]

If you have to re-install, do yourself a favor, do not copy LILO to MBR. NT and LILO
are not the best of friends and strange things can occur. Put it on first Linux
partition, and make boot floopy. If NT gets upgraded, your LILO will corrupt once
again......

Marco Haverkate wrote:

> raheesom btinternet com on 12/13/99 09:02:07 AM
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> Please respond to raheesom btinternet com
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> Subject:  LILO not booting after resizing partition.
>
> I've just resized & moved my Linux partition (ext 2) on my HD using Partition
> Magic 4.   My NT partition works fine, but Linux doesn't.
>
> When trying to boot Linux now I get the bootup freezing at the
> a prompt saying "LIL-" instead of "LILO:"
>
> I presume your MBR is corrupt.
>
> Can I reinstall the LILO boot?  If so, how?  I'm just hoping I don't have to
> completely reinstall Linux!
>
> I guess so: Boot from floppy, mount your 'normal' partition,  cd to
> etc/lilo.conf and check the configuration there. Then run a 'lilo -C lilo.conf',
> and you should do fine.
>
> Ciao, Marco
>
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