Hi, I was using LILO to dual-boot on windows-xp and fedora. I lost the graphical boot screen I used to have under RH9. I read somewhere that I need to put message=/boot/message in the /etc/lilo.conf file. Since I don't have the /boot/message file, in a stupid move, I create an empty one. I then run /etc/lilo and got fatal error message. I removed the added line in lilo.conf, reintall, same error message. I wasn't too worried at this point since I figured I can always boot from floppy, right ?. I reboot from floppy and suprisingly see lilo coming up, it looks like now it is on /root partition! ? How could this happen ? Anyway I decided to use grub. I created /boot/gub/grub.conf file, since upgrading from FC1 to RH9 anacanda did not generate one for me although I did select to upgrade boot loader. I guess that is becausing i was using lilo in RH9. Anacanda ( I probably spelled it wrong ) didn't upgrade lilo.conf correctly either, created quite some chaos for me. I run /sibn/grub-install /dev/hda without removing lilo as I was told that there is no need, I reboot, saw grub graphical screen, choose Fedora, naturally. Then it said it didn't found the vmlinuz.<version-number>. So I figured I need to boot with floppy , corret grub.conf problem. Then the realy tragity happened. The machine simple won't boot. My guess is after install grub, the lilo who strangely sit on /root partition got corrupted. When boot from floppy, lilo which acts like some later-stage boot loader got load in and it coundn't do the job. So now I truely cannot boot. What are my options at this point ? Can I change grub.conf file under grub ? How do i do it ? If I reinstall Fedora, would it help ? I am very reluctant to do something like fdsk /mbr. Thanks in advance, Xiaohu
