Re: Can't boot REDHAT since Mandrake 9.1 installed a new LILO

[Albert DE WINT <adwint pandora be>]

On Tuesday 03 June 2003 19:24, Mark Knecht wrote:
> HE'S BAAACCCKKK!!! ;-)
>
> Albert - what would a Tuesday be without you?! ;-)
>
> Don't be embarrassed. I hosed up my machine for a day starting Sunday
> afternoon and fixed it last evening. We all do it.

Sorry Mark, it seems I can't have more than one system running at the same 
time.
>
> Looking at your setup below, I think you'll be able to figure out which
> parts are which pretty easily. All of your partition sizes are different,
> so boot into Mandrake and run 'df -T' and report back what you see. It
> should tell you the sizes of the drives that are mounted. That will help us
> understand which pieces are Mandrake, but they are most likely some of the
> higher hda numbers. (Installed last.)

Before I started any mounting, this is how it looked:

[root dimension boot]# df -T
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5     ext3    5,8G  850M  4,7G  16% /
/dev/hda10    ext3     36G   34M   36G   1% /home
/dev/hda1     ntfs     28G  4,0G   24G  15% /mnt/windows

> and mount any drives that are NOT mounted already (looking at df -T) on
> their appropriate numbers. (Remember to 'umount /mnt/hda6 after you mount
> it so you don't get fooled.)

I unmounted all the partitions that I mounted. (Back to the first status)

> Once those are mounted, switch to those directories (cd /mnt/hda6) and look
> at what's there. Use ls -a and report back what you see.

I figured it out, here's my conclusion:

hda1	NTFS (WinXPp
hda2 	deleted
hda3	deleted
hda4	Win 95 Ext'd (LBA)
hda5	Mandrake (ext3) (contains only: ./ ../ )
hda6	Redhat 9 (contains the 3 different RH kernels and much more stuff)
hda7	Redhat 9 (contains bin/ boot/ ...and much more stuff)
hda8 	swap
hda9	swap 
hda10	Mandrake (ext3) 

> One last thing - did Mandrake install LILO or grub?
>
Mandrake installed LILO (graphical version)

> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
> > [mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Albert DE WINT
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:03 AM
> > To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> > Subject: Can't boot REDHAT since Mandrake 9.1 installed a new LILO
> >
> >
> > Hi Rick, hi Mark, hi Otto, hi other members of the list,
> >
> > Today I installed Mandrake 9.1.
> > It installed a new LILO, completely neglecting my RedHat's GRUB.
> > I suppose it also has written a new MBR?
> >
> > Now, I can't boot Red Hat anymore.  :-(
> > I'm both embarrassed and confused.
> >
> > Here's my partition table:
> >
> > Device     Boot Start     End     Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1     *     1    3616   29045488+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/hda4        3617   14589   88140622+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > /dev/hda5        3617    4380    6136798+  83  Linux 
> > /dev/hda6        9151    9163     104391   83  Linux
> > /dev/hda7        9164   14459   42540088+  83  Linux
> > /dev/hda8       14460   14589    1044193+  82  Linux swap
> > /dev/hda9        4381    4443     506016   82  Linux swap
> > /dev/hda10       4444    9150   37808946   83  Linux
> >
> > Before I installed MDK 9.1, I removed partitions hda2 and hda3.
> > (Both used to be dedicated to my former MDK 9.0, so I took them out.)
> >
> > The partition table is  growing, and I can't figure it out, which
> > OS is on
> > which partition.
> >
> > I was told Windows has this nasty habbit of overwriting the MBR.
> > Aren't the Linux distro's supposed to have some respect?
> >
> > Now I wonder how I can correct this situation.
> >
> > I do have this nice floppy that used to boot RED HAT just fine,
> > but now that
> > one doesn't work neither.
> >
> > Can you please give me a hint.
> >
> > Albert
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > You'd better check your plane, Rick!
> > Mark installed a ceiling fan, this week-end...  ;-)
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> >
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