[newbie] rescue disk probs

2004-08-23 Thread Scott
Hello I'm trying to use my 10.0 rescue disk to re-write lilo in hda. The problem is I have an improperly named kernel image in /etc/lilo.conf, so the rewrite fails whenit runs "lilo". I don't seem to be able to open lilo.conf with vi to change it from the rescue console though. I just get

Re: [newbie] rescue disk probs

2004-08-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 23 August 2004 21:18, Scott wrote: Hello I'm trying to use my 10.0 rescue disk to re-write lilo in hda. The problem is I have an improperly named kernel image in /etc/lilo.conf, so the rewrite fails when it runs lilo. I don't seem to be able to open lilo.conf with vi to change it

Re: [newbie] rescue disk probs

2004-08-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Scott wrote: Hello I'm trying to use my 10.0 rescue disk to re-write lilo in hda. The problem is I have an improperly named kernel image in /etc/lilo.conf, so the rewrite fails when it runs lilo. I don't seem to be able to open lilo.conf with vi to change it from the rescue console though. I

Re: [newbie] rescue disk probs

2004-08-23 Thread Vincent Voois
You can also try to save it with a Linux PE-CD (single-cd distributions) like e.g. Knoppix. Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 23 August 2004 21:18, Scott wrote: Hello I'm trying to use my 10.0 rescue disk to re-write lilo in hda. The problem is I have an improperly named kernel image in

[newbie] rescue disk probs

2004-08-23 Thread Scott Wagner
Thanks, I'm back in Mandrake. I did # mkdir /mnt/tmp and then # mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/tmp and then found /etc/lilo.conf at /mnt/tmp/etc/lilo.conf Vi was acting a little sickly, but I was able to delete the bad stanza. Thanks all, SW

Re: [newbie] rescue disk probs

2004-08-23 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 07:05, Scott Wagner wrote: Thanks, I'm back in Mandrake. I did # mkdir /mnt/tmp and then # mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/tmp and then found /etc/lilo.conf at /mnt/tmp/etc/lilo.conf Vi was acting a little sickly, but I was able to delete the bad stanza.