On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:31:40PM -0700, Jeremy Browne wrote:
> So, I decided to try some more tonight.
>
> I mounted my / as "/theroot", did "cd /theroot/sbin", and "lilo". I got:
> "/etc/lilo.conf: No such file or directory"
>
> So I "cp /theroot/etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf" and run "lilo" again. I got:
> "open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory"
>
> So I "mkdir /boot", "mount /dev/hda1 /boot", and "lilo". I get "First boot
> sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature".
>
> 'K. I'm stuck again.
>
> Thanks for the help so far.
Okay, that sounds really odd. Do you have a bootable CDROM drive and an install CD?
If so, you could try the trick I mentioned with the vmlinuz root=/dev/hda? line.
Perhaps it will work then. Or if not, at least you'll be booted into your system and
will be able to get to your files.
--Levi
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