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  From: Andrew Harwood <aaharwood@bigpond.com>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 05:00:26 +1030

Re: Reinstalling LILO RedHat 6.2

on 14/12/2000 09:50, Peter Wade at pwade@posword.org wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently had to reformat C: and reinstall Windows, and lost LILO. I was
> not concerned because I had my faithful Linux Pocketbook with a section on
> Reinstalling in such situations.
> 
> Using the CD-ROM to boot from in rescue mode, I can get into a bash#
> prompt. It says I can reinstall LILO into the boot sector by running
> /sbin/lilo. First I mount the root filesystem with mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1
> /mnt and then I do a cd to /sbin and then an ls, but there is no lilo there.
> 

<snip>

First of all, there are subdirectories under /mnt that are already mounted
(use mount to check, it will list all current mounts)

Anyway, here are my insructions to help you out.