Morgan Fletcher wrote:
>I am running "testing", my system is up-to-date, except that I haven't
>let apt-get remove the 102 packages it recently wants to remove.
>
>I believe I saw lilo get updated this weekend, during 'apt-get update
>&& apt-get upgrade'. This morning I rebooted and got "LI". (Lilo
>normally let's me boot into win2k or debian "testing".)
>
>I pulled out an old potato-era rescue disk, entered "rescue
>root=/dev/hda3" at the "rescue:" prompt and everything went okay until
>it got stuck in an endless loop, repeating the same messages over and
>over:
>
> insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: insmod net-pf-1 failed
> insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/2
>00010319 Read-only file system
>
>I don't know what's going on. Advice?
The root partition is mounted read-only to start with. You need to
load a kernel module to finish booting, but it looks as though the rescue kernel
doesn't match the modules on your hard disk.
It looks as if you may have overwritten your kernel-image package. The
LI message means that lilo couldn't find the kernel where it is configured
to look for it.
If that is correct, the simplest way to deal with it is:
Boot from the floppy:
boot: rescue root=/dev/hda3 init=/bin/sh
This will put you straight into a shell, with no other utilities running.
# /sbin/lilo
This should reinstall lilo so that you can boot from the hard disk.
Then:
# sync
# reboot
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