[96441] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Lost lilo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Tue Oct 27 05:13:49 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:14:43 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <3633E1B8.772C6A5E@mail.clis.com>; from Woody Sulloway on Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 09:43:04PM -0500
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Woody Sulloway writes:
> Hi folks
> I lost lilo after getting some disk access error messages. I can't
> figure out how to boot to Root to try to fix lilo.conf. My Redhat Boot
> disk and any disk I make from Rawwrite seem to just want to set up 4.2
> all over again. The Alt-f2 commands seem to have no effect Typing
> Rescue asks for the 2nd disk but It gets upset when it finds out I've
> pulled the CD ROM Drive.
>
> Looking in the Manuals and FAQ's I must be missing something cause every
> "Boot Disk" I've tried to make has turned out to be a set up disk.
>
> What am I missing here?
You're talking RHL 4.2 here, right? In that case, boot from your boot/setup
disk, and when the prompt appears, type "linux rescue" - that'll drop you
into rescue mode. There's a section about that in the manual. Mind you, the
rescue mode is rather limited and requires some messing around before you
can actually start fixing things. You'll have to mount your Linux (root)
partition on /mnt, then run /mnt/etc/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf (if
that conf file is correct, of course!). Depending on your setup, it might be
necessary to make a few symlinks in /dev, as not all /dev entries are there
and lilo tends to complain if they're missing.
That's all I can tell you off my head, hope it's at least a bit helpful.
Thomas
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