On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:40:12AM +0000, AG <computing.acco...@googlemail.com> was heard to say: > On one disk I found something that booted into the grub prompt. I > did some reading up on grub and some basic commands. I didn't get > very far - it reports back that there is an ext2fs loaded on > /dev/hda1 which I'm assuming was root, although I am sure that when > I partitioned the drive today I selected ext3.
ext3 volumes can be mounted as ext2. The main thing is that you don't have journaling, but that isn't too important for read-only access. > The boot loader > installed today was lilo, because I changed the lilo.conf file to > point to the new vmlinuz and initrd.gz files, so that is what is > being used. I don't know if grub can use/ by-pass lilo? grub is a bootloader just like lilo is. It can chainload into lilo (that is, boot lilo from a partition as if the computer had booted into it directly) or boot a Linux image directly. The usual command for booting from hda1 would be root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.30-1-686 boot but of course they might need to be adapted for your situation. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org