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green_man
green_man at bluefrog.biz
Fri Feb 14 15:25:02 EST 2003
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 prompt on the command line, but not
sure where to go from there.
Are we on for this SUN ??
I'll bring it in.
Can somebody bring a Mandrake 8.2 or later boot cd ?
--
Scott
Pegasus v 4.01
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world:
those who understand binary, and those who don't."
Richard Hubbard
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