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You've installed Windows and lilos gone and Linux wont boot now what?
Grab a copy of tomsrtbt and boot your system from it.
Log in as root and mount your root partition on /mnt like this, 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hdax /mnt'
( where x is the number of your root partition ) 
Now type '/sbin/lilo -r /mnt/etc'
This will rewrite your boot sector using the lilo.conf file from your hard drive and not the floppy

Your hard drive crashed and you didn't backup ( shame on you )
You will need 2 hard drives the bad one and a known good one, at least as large as the bad one.
Put the new good drive in your sytem and boot from tomsrtbt and login as root
( this assumes the bad drive is hda and you've put the new one in as hdc )
Create a filesystem on the new drive with fdisk and mk2fs make it ext2
At the command line type 'dd conv=noerror if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1'
When this is done you want to check your data
If the old drive was a Linux system run 'e2fsk -y /dev/hdc1
If the old drive was a Windows system place it in a Windows machine and run scandisk and defrag on it

 
 
 
 
 

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