Blarg. I'll have to definitely keep that in mind, next time. <G>
Although, hopefully, there will never be a next time.
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:48:26PM -0400, Michael Burger wrote:
> > Thanks...that's something to try, next time.
>
> > In the meantime, it was complaining about not having /dev/hda? where
> > ? was the 3 partitions listed in lilo.conf.
>
> > I did a mknod for each one, then did a "lilo -C
> > /mnt/sysimage/etc/lilo.conf" and it actually worked...oh, yeah, I did
> > a "ln -s /mnt/sysimage/boot /boot" first...it complained about /boot
> > not existing. Oy.
>
> See, the -r option should have avoided all of that. It changes
> to the specified directory and treats that as the root directory. Your
> /boot and /dev are all relative to that, then.
>
> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:40:26 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> >
> > >On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:34:40PM -0400, Michael Burger wrote:
> > >> Ok...I'm a little stuck.
> > >
> > >> I installed Wolverine, and then let up2date update everything but the
> > >> kernel. Well, now lilo's screwed up (booting to just "LI" and
> > >> stopping)...and I'm a little stuck for the correct syntax to get lilo
> > >> reinstalled.
> > >
> > >> The "linux rescue" boot has mounted my / and my /boot as
> > >> /mnt/sysimage/ and /mnt/sysimage/boot, and I've got enough to know
> > >> that I need to use "lilo -C /mnt/sysimage/etc/lilo.conf" but I'm a
> > >> bit stuck after that.
> > >
> > > Try:
> > >
> > > lilo -r /mnt/sysimage
> > >
> > > (Change to /mnt/sysimage as the root directory and then run)
> > >
> > >> Anyone? <G>
> > >
> > > Mike
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>
> Mike
>
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