Christof Hurschler wrote: > it just stops with "LI" and goes no further. I read in the archives that > this means that Lilo can't completely load. > > .. but what does the "rescue" command do? you have to boot from the cdrom/floppy in rescue mod, then mount the complete system hierarchy under some directory (e.g. /mnt/sysimage), chroot to this directory and re-run lilo.
Bye > > Chris > >> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:05AM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: >> >> > I'm getting the LI hang on boot. I tried booting from my floppy, but >> > it gives me a kernel panic... >> >> with what message? >> >> > I now read that I can boot from floppy with the "rescue >> > root=/dev/hda1", >> but >> > I'm assuming that this is the default mode the floppy boots in anyways, >> or >> > is it? >> >> is /dev/hda1 your / partition? >> >> if it isn't, if it is /dev/hdb2 or something, then boot from the rescue >> floopy >> so : >> >> linux root=/dev/hdb2 >> >> > If I could get back in with the floppy, I'd try rerunning LILO to get >> things >> > back in order, but I'm afraid I'm not going to get that far. Any >> > suggestions? How can I tell if I've got a real hardware problem? >> Knoppix? >> >> you can boot with the floppy even if you have hw(hdd) problems. >> if you cannot boot with root= explicit given, then boot with the >> installfloppy, wait until he wants to have rootfs disk, give it him, >> and when the installscreen comes, alt+f2 and you have a shell. >> >> HTH >> >> charlie >> >> -- >> Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS >> Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control. >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]