If you have a boot partition make sure you mount that before running lilo.

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote:

> So sprach »Hoyt« am 2001-09-04 um 11:00:46 -0400 :
> > >  - run lilo chrooted :
> > >           $ chroot /mnt/disk/ /sbin/lilo
> > >  - reboot and you should get lilo menu
> > >
> >
> > Won't
> >  /sbin/lilo -r /mnt/disk
> > do the same thing?
>
> Not quite.  In your example, you start lilo from the "real" root and
> have it run chrooted in /mnt/disk.  In the example above, the chroot is
> done before lilo is started, which means, that /sbin/lilo uses the
> /mnt/disk/sbin/lilo (if / is the real root/the same root as your /).
>
> Your example *might* give problems if the lilo versions do not match.
> *Might* means, it *might* work without any hassles, but chroot /mnt/disk
> /sbin/lilo is safer, IMO.
>
> Alexander Skwar
>

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