On Monday 01 October 2001 12:18 am, Zoki spoke thus unto Caesar's assembled legions: > At 22:22 30/09/01 -0700, you wrote: > >I screwed up my lilo.conf file big time and ran /sbin/lilo. Now I > >cannot boot that partition. However, I can access it from another > >partition. Is there a way that I can rerun /sbin/lilo from one > >partition yet have it write the correct map file and boot sector to > > the other partition? I think this is possible from reading the > > LILO Users Guide but I'd hate to blow up the unaffected partition > > also. I need a LILO expert on this one :- ( > > *** Not really a LILO expert but you might try to use > > lilo -C /path/to/lilo.conf > > which will use "/path/to/lilo.conf" as your config file.
I've been trying this command option and it's telling me I don't have permission. I'm working from root. > > If this works and you recover your partition, promisse me you'll > never ever run lilo without lilo -t!? That's "t" as in "test"... I'll do that. > > On the other hand, why don't you boot with your floppy? I tried my rescue disk and it's sick. I'm trying to read how to create a new rescue disk from the working partition. > > > Zoran. > > _______________________________________________ > http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc > ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing" _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
