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 sta
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
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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 /etc/lilo.c
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.
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 chan
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 just ge
