On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Michael Rice wrote:
> >
> > the rescue disk is the 'root' disk of the set, you still need to boot off
> > the other and type 'rescue' at the prompt.
> >
> > Then it will ask for the rescue disk.
> >
> > As Simon pointed out, tomsrtbt (www.toms.net/rb/) is a single floppy
> > bootable distro that is very good to use in place of the rescue disk.
> >
>
> OK, but what is the name of the 'boot' image, then?
>
> I also use tomsrtbt, but the problem there is that tomsrtbt is still based
> on libc5, so the following happens when I try, for example, to rerun lilo
> on a disk which Windows has munged the master boot block on:
>
> boot from tomsrtbt 1.7.134
> mount /dev/hda3 /mnt
> /mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt
>
> and the system says that the command /mnt/sbin/lilo can't be found.
Hmmm. lilo is included on tomsrtbt. It's in /usr/bin. If you use that
one, you shouldn't have a problem.
I've never had a problem with the library thing, 'cause I've always found
the tools I need on tomsrtbt.
- Simon
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