Linux to the rescue ?

[Scott Lawton]

On 20 Jan 2003 at 6:20, Robert Meyer wrote:

> 
> The Mandrake boot disks provide a 'rescue' option.  If you have
> Mandrake 8.2 or later, you can stuff the install CD in the drive and
> when it boots, hit the <F1> key to get to a prompt and type 'rescue'. 
> You will be presented with a series of options, one of which is
> 'reinstall LILO boot loader' or some such.  It will do what it says
> and life will be good.  I've used this numerous times when folks I
> know do a windows install after bad things happen to their windows
> partitions and it overwrites the lilo boot.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob

It's mandrake 8.1. 
I was able to get to a root at rescue propmt on the command line, but not sure where to go from there.
Are we on for this SUN ?? 
I'll bring it in. 

-- 
Scott
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