[NMLUG] Argghhh!!! I hosed my MBR

[tiberius at freeshell.org (Matt Rechkemmer)]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:04:54AM -0800, Tim Emerick wrote:
> I updated my Win98 partition on my dual boot debian/Windows machine to
> Windows XP.  I expected XP to take over the MBR but didn't realize how
> difficult it was to have LILO take it all back.  I'm now stuck with a dead
> machine.
> 
> Partititions are all intact, checked them with knoppix.
> 
> I tried booting knoppix and following some directions on restoring the MBR so
> that LILO could handle the bootup.  Got lost since most of the directions I
> could find were redhat related and I'm running debian.  I also got lost since
> everytime I tried to run lilo it was looking at the knoppix generated
> /etc/lilo.conf that resided on the ram disk.

Try /sbin/lilo -C /path/to/lilo/conf/on/your/drive/lilo.conf