Re: [SLUG] Reinstalling Lilo on a reiserfs system.

[Ken Yap <ken@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>So what can I do?  I need either a boot disk which will let me mount
>reiserfs partitions, or a way of installing a boot loader without
>mounting the partition that it will be running.  

Yup.

>If it's any help, /boot is a 12 MB ext2 partition.  The system itself is
>Mandrake 7.1 with a few patches and updates.

Or you could boot a rescue floppy, make a tmproot in ramdisk, say
/tmp/foo, mount the boot partition under that as /tmp/foo/boot, create a
/tmp/foo/etc/lilo.conf (hope you remember the items required), then run
lilo -r /tmp/foo.