Re: Why all the futzing with boot loaders

2006-08-24 Thread Jason Martens
Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Jason Martens wrote: > [...snip...] > >> mount -t proc proc /proc > Check: This sounds too much like a magical incantation) > There's nothing really magical about it. To have network access, you need /proc mounted in your chroot, which is all

Re: Why all the futzing with boot loaders

2006-08-24 Thread Rich Johnson
On Aug 24, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Jason Martens wrote: [...snip...] My second question: - After the LILO ''upgrade'', attempts to install lilo have my system unbootable, can anyone tell me how I bolixed things up and walk me through a recovery process? (step 1: how to obtain an bootable flopp

Re: Why all the futzing with boot loaders

2006-08-23 Thread Jason Martens
Rich Johnson wrote: I was perfectly happy running LILO with potato and woody. Then sarge installs with the GRUB bootloader. All right, I can deal. Now apt-get dist-upgrade _removes_ a working GRUB and installs a non-working LILO; it doesn't update the MBR. I'm not really sure why grub would ha

Re: Why all the futzing with boot loaders

2006-08-23 Thread Rich Johnson
On Aug 23, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Rich Johnson wrote:[...snip...]My second question: - After the LILO ''upgrade'', attempts to install lilo have my system unbootable, can anyone tell me how I bolixed things up and walk me through a recovery process?  (step 1: how to obtain an bootable floppy with ext3,

Why all the futzing with boot loaders

2006-08-23 Thread Rich Johnson
I was perfectly happy running LILO with potato and woody. Then sarge installs with the GRUB bootloader. All right, I can deal. Now apt-get dist-upgrade _removes_ a working GRUB and installs a non- working LILO; it doesn't update the MBR. My first question: - Can anyone tell me why there's a