[plug] LILO, I mean LI

Senectus . senectus at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 10:12:26 WST 2006


On 2/23/06, Jonathan Young <jonathan at pcphix.com> wrote:
> Two problems though:
>
> (1) No LILO on the Live CD I've got.  Can I run it from the drive I am
> trying to repair?
>
> (2) I know not Grub!  (But I'm willing to learn.)
>
You need to "chroot" so that it picks up commands from the local install..
The best explanation I've found on this is in the Gentoo install handbook..
You'll have to pick out what is relevant to you.. but chroot will
solve the no lilo on your live cd problem (and a few other potential
issue's)
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6

Marcus

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