Re: [ilugd] now, help on lilo
With Knoppix CD do it like this: - Boot off the Knoppix CD. - Open a terminal. You become root with the command sudo su. You can also open the root terminal which is on the Knoppix menu. - mount the drive partition having Linux (mount /dev/hda?)(replace the ? with the appropriate drive letter) - change to the partition holding Linux on the harddisk. (cd /mnt/hda?) - chroot to the Linux partition (chroot /mnt/hda1) A very important step and forgot this one. Now lilo is back. - Now you can edit the /etc/lilo.conf file if required. - Finally, shoot the command /sbin/lilo. Reboot and you are done. I even had to mount the boot partition as running lilo gave the error '/boot/boot.b' not found. The trick is to chroot to the Linux partition, else you are refering to the wrong /etc/lilo.conf and /sbin/lilo scripts. -- narsingh Yahoo! India Mobile: Download the latest polyphonic ringtones. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd -- Vijay Raghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
RE: [ilugd] now, help on lilo
Oops!!! 3 hours and that too precious... OMG!!! Was there any separate boot partition when the linux was running on both pf its legs? After booting it in rescue mode, what does fdisk -l says??? You need to mount the file system of linux, change root on the mounted file system and then make changes and do some formalities of sync sync before un-mounting and exiting... HTH... Regards, Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva _ | Organisational Unit: Nokia | Direct dial US: +1 613-271-6721 Option 5 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.igate.com iGate Global Process Outsourcing Limited | C133/A Sector - 2 | Noida | 201 301 | India| +91 (120) 254-8520 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vijay Raghavan Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ilugd] now, help on lilo Hello, I had a dual boot system with redhat linux and winxp. Winxp was giving a lot of problems. so decided to remove it and install win 2000. did it and as usual, lilo was gone. I have faced such a problem earlier too but I always used to reinstalled linux and I dont want to take the same old step. The steps I took: 1) used knoppix, was able to mount the root, was able to edit lilo.conf (used vi) but was unable to run lilo. whenever i ran lilo, it gave some error saying 'there's some problem in lilo.conf at line number xx'. I searched for some sample lilo.conf and there was no mistake. 2) used 2-3 floppy bootable linux distributions but was unseccussful. 3) since i can't go into dos, i can't use loadlin. i used a dos bootable floppy and tried loadlin from there but to no avail. 4) I even used the RHL 8.0 first CD to get into the rescue mode and try from there. but it says that there aren't any linux partitions present in the hard disk. ufff, there are i guess because explore2fs is able to read the partitions. NOW WHAT SHOULD I DO, I NEED LINUX TO STAND UP AND START RUNNING. Just the day before I lost linux, i apt-get_ed it. It took precious 3 hours of mine. regards, vijay. -- Vijay Raghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] now, help on lilo
well first you should leave the error message and if possible your /etc/lilo.conf file too.if u have a suse boot cd i suggest you use the manual boot option from the CD to boot into your OS. hope this helps. Rishabh On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Vijay Raghavan wrote: Hello, I had a dual boot system with redhat linux and winxp. Winxp was giving a lot of problems. so decided to remove it and install win 2000. did it and as usual, lilo was gone. I have faced such a problem earlier too but I always used to reinstalled linux and I dont want to take the same old step. The steps I took: 1) used knoppix, was able to mount the root, was able to edit lilo.conf (used vi) but was unable to run lilo. whenever i ran lilo, it gave some error saying 'there's some problem in lilo.conf at line number xx'. I searched for some sample lilo.conf and there was no mistake. 2) used 2-3 floppy bootable linux distributions but was unseccussful. 3) since i can't go into dos, i can't use loadlin. i used a dos bootable floppy and tried loadlin from there but to no avail. 4) I even used the RHL 8.0 first CD to get into the rescue mode and try from there. but it says that there aren't any linux partitions present in the hard disk. ufff, there are i guess because explore2fs is able to read the partitions. NOW WHAT SHOULD I DO, I NEED LINUX TO STAND UP AND START RUNNING. Just the day before I lost linux, i apt-get_ed it. It took precious 3 hours of mine. regards, vijay. -- Vijay Raghavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
