Re: LI Hang, recovery??

2003-10-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 05:34 GMT, Christof Hurschler penned: I didn't get chroot to work because I wasn't using chroot correctly, so thanks for the full command line on that. I think that will be something usefull to know in the future. Chris I copied it from some notes I keep for

LI Hang, recovery??

2003-10-09 Thread Christof Hurschler
Hi, I'm getting the LI hang on boot. I tried booting from my floppy, but it gives me a kernel panic... I now read that I can boot from floppy with the rescue root=/dev/hda1, but I'm assuming that this is the default mode the floppy boots in anyways, or is it? If I could get back in with the

Re: LI Hang, recovery??

2003-10-09 Thread VEGH Karoly
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:05AM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: I'm getting the LI hang on boot. I tried booting from my floppy, but it gives me a kernel panic... with what message? I now read that I can boot from floppy with the rescue root=/dev/hda1, but I'm assuming that this is

Re: LI Hang, recovery??

2003-10-09 Thread Christof Hurschler
it just stops with LI and goes no further. I read in the archives that this means that Lilo can't completely load. .. but what does the rescue command do? Chris On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:05AM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: I'm getting the LI hang on boot. I tried booting from my

Re: LI Hang, recovery??

2003-10-09 Thread Kent West
Christof Hurschler wrote: Hi, I'm getting the LI hang on boot. Probably because LILO didn't completely, properly get installed. I tried booting from my floppy, but it gives me a kernel panic... I never boot from floppy, so am unfamiliar with the issues. If you have a Debian installation

Re: LI Hang, recovery??

2003-10-09 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Christof Hurschler wrote: it just stops with LI and goes no further. I read in the archives that this means that Lilo can't completely load. .. but what does the rescue command do? you have to boot from the cdrom/floppy in rescue mod, then mount the complete system hierarchy under some

Re: LI Hang, recovery??

2003-10-09 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 11:33 GMT, Christof Hurschler penned: it just stops with LI and goes no further. I read in the archives that this means that Lilo can't completely load. .. but what does the rescue command do? Chris On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:05AM +0200, Christof Hurschler

Re: LI Hang, recovery?? SOLVED

2003-10-09 Thread Christof Hurschler
I got back in by booting from an installation CD (bf2.4), with root=/dev/hda4 which was my root partition (I'd forgotten which one I was using, Knoppix came in handy to figure that out). For some reason when I booted from that CD my screen was jumbled, even when I switched to a text console.

Re: LI Hang, recovery??

2003-10-09 Thread Christof Hurschler
Thanks so much for the response, I got it working (see my SOLVED post). in the process of trying to get things working I did try Knoppix, I saw that my partition was ok, since Knoppix was able to mount it, and I could also tell which partition was actually my root partition because it had been