Can I fix or replace Redhat 7 LILO using Kubuntu 5.04 CD?

[Jerry Miller]

[snip]

Oops!  I missed this part of your response the first time.
That does sound like the sequence of commands he gave
me at the time.  I may need to download and burn a live
CD, because the one I have doesn't seem to permit any
command other than "boot" or "boot server."

I'm hoping that such a CD can be downloaded.  Otherwise
I'd be in the same gotcha situation I had when I used
mkbootfloppy (or whatever) from work and found that
it only worked on the machine that created it.


> what you can try :
> 
> - boot from the kubuntu-cd with the command :
>  rescue root=/dev/hdaX ro
>  (where X is the number of your RHL / partition)
> - if this works fine, edit your /etc/lilo.conf and make changes that
>  are needed
> - type : lilo -v
> - reboot
> 
> disclaimer :
> 
> * i'm not sure about the exact syntax for "rescue"
> you could just try this
> http://kudos.berlios.de/kf/kisimlar/recovery.html#rootcd
> 
> * normally i use a knoppix-cd for these cases, you would then do :
> - boot the knoppix live-cd
> - manually mount the linux-partition, e.g.
>  mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
> - chroot /mnt/hda3
> - /sbin/lilo -v
> 
> HTH
>