[CLUE-Talk] Recovering from loss of /boot directory on Slackware

[Dave Anselmi]

"Timothy C. Klein" wrote:

> I just did this last week, on accident.  Go figure.  I thought it was
> bad, but it turned out to be no big deal.  I didn't even have to go to
> backups.  Most those file were included in the LILO deb for Debian.
> If you use RPMs, hopefully it is the same way.  So reinstall lilo from
> RPM or deb.  Then get the System.Map, config, and bzImage from your
> kernel source tree.  Then rerun lilo, it will recreate a couple of files
> (chain.b was it?)  I don't think you actually need the os2_d.b.  The
> only really one that can't be recovered is the boot.0300.  That is a
> back up of your boot sector before lilo ran, in case you wanted to
> restore it later.  For me, that was useless.  But if that wasn't backed
> up, you can't get it back.

os2_d.b is handy for dual booting Win2k.

Dave