Lilo Help

2004-06-22 Thread Kenny Lussier
Title: Lilo Help Hi All, While updating my system, I managed to fsck it pretty good. When I boot, I get LI and it stops. I remember that that means that the second stage loader doesn't take over. I just don't remember how to fix it. I can boot up Knoppix and mount the file sy

RE: Lilo Help

2004-06-22 Thread Mansur, Warren
Title: Lilo Help Hi,   Yes first you need to use a boot CD that can mount your original disk (such as your Knoppx CD). Next, execute these steps:   - Open a terminal - Go to the directory that contains your original mounted hard drive - executed 'chroot' so that now your hard d

RE: Lilo Help

2004-06-22 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:18, Mansur, Warren wrote: > > - Open a terminal > - Go to the directory that contains your original mounted hard drive > - executed 'chroot' so that now your hard drive looks like '/' instead Ah, yes... chroot. I knew I was forgetting something. Thanks, Warren! It has b

RE: Lilo Help

2004-06-22 Thread Cole Tuininga
By default, KNOPPIX mounts hard drive partitions with the "ro" flag. In other words, no writing allowed. 8) There's a way to mount it rw through the gui, but I don't remember it off the top of my head. You should be able to do it from the command line, or so I would imagine. -- "The best fir

Re: Lilo Help

2004-06-22 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:59:38PM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: > > By default, KNOPPIX mounts hard drive partitions with the "ro" flag. In > other words, no writing allowed. 8) > > There's a way to mount it rw through the gui, but I don't remember it > off the top of my head. You should be abl

Re: Lilo Help

2004-06-22 Thread Kenny Lussier
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 14:04, Mark Komarinski wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:59:38PM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: > > > > By default, KNOPPIX mounts hard drive partitions with the "ro" flag. In > > other words, no writing allowed. 8) > I've been using knoppix to bootstrap Debian stable to ne

Re: Lilo Help

2004-06-22 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:05:16PM -0400, Kenny Lussier wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 14:04, Mark Komarinski wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:59:38PM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote: > > > > > > By default, KNOPPIX mounts hard drive partitions with the "ro" flag. In > > > other words, no writing

RE: Lilo Help

2004-06-22 Thread Dan Bunker
2:00 PM To: GNHLUG List Subject: RE: Lilo Help By default, KNOPPIX mounts hard drive partitions with the "ro" flag. In other words, no writing allowed. 8) There's a way to mount it rw through the gui, but I don't remember it off the top of my head. You should be able to d

Re: Lilo Help

2004-06-22 Thread Kenny Lussier
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 14:16, Mark Komarinski wrote: > > It was mounted rw. I could touch a file, I could delete files, I could > > change permissions, etc. It just wouldn't let me do anything in /dev, > > and only in /dev. > > Oh right. Was /proc mounted? Oddly enough, that came up in a convers

Re: Lilo Help

2004-06-23 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
These steps form the 'Gentoo' install procedure might help when using chroot to to such things. I believe running lilo without a /proc will cause it to at least whine... -- __ | 0|___||. Andrew Gaunt - Computing Development Environment _| _| : : } Lucent Intranet: http://mvcde.inse.lucent