Ken Yap wrote:
> >or a way of installing a boot loader without
> >mounting the partition that it will be running.
> could boot a rescue floppy, make a tmproot in ramdisk, say
> /tmp/foo, mount the boot partition under that as /tmp/foo/boot, create a
> /tmp/foo/etc/lilo.conf (hope you remember the items required), then run
> lilo -r /tmp/foo.
>
I did this, also creating a /foo/dev directory and mknod'ing device
files for the hard-drive partitions. (Otherwise lilo can't access
/dev/hda after doing a chroot to /tmp/foo)
I made up a lilo.conf file, installed it, and then when rebooting it
starts to work fine untill it goes to mount the root partition.
Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06.
3 and 6 are the major/minor numbers for hda6, so I assume it's trying to
mount the right partition and failing. Unless anyone can suggest
something I've missed, I'll assume that *somehow* windows installation
has corrupted the partition itself, and I'll just reinstall. Luckily
this won't be a mojor problem, as I've got all the patches I've used
burnt to CD as well as 3 day old copies of /etc, /root and /home.
- Doug
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