From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 14: 4:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom2-111.telepath.com [216.14.2.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5270737B42C for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 88552 invoked by uid 100); 22 Sep 2000 21:03:55 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14795.51515.563602.65720@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:03:55 -0500 (CDT) To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LINUX BOOT LOADER In-Reply-To: <86784088@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Odhiambo Washington writes: > Quoting Igor Roboul : > [000922 07:42]: > I am afraid I cannot do that. > Here is the scenario: LILO was working fine until someone did something! > Now the computer boots directly to windows!! It is not that whoever did it > repartitioned the disk, NO. I've verified that the partition with Linux is > still not visible in Windows, so Linux is still somewhere, only how do I > get back the boot manager? Somebody probably installed Windows9x, which overwrites the boot block. You'll have to boot from a Unix or Linux rescue/boot disk/floppy, and then reinstall lilo.