On Monday 01 October 2001 05:26 am, Bruce Marshall spoke thus unto Caesar's assembled legions: > On Monday 01 October 2001 1:22 am, Tony Alfrey 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 :- ( > > > > Thanks very much in advance! > > lilo has an -r option for 'relative' where you can run lilo against > another partition and system. > > As always, you should 'man lilo'
Yes, the -r option is much like chroot but this is giving me a "permission denied" message. I've been reading lots and lots of lilo manuals. -- 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
