[plug] LILO, I mean LI

Tomasz Grzegurzko tomasz_g at arach.net.au
Thu Feb 23 10:31:16 WST 2006


Senectus . wrote:
> 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
> 

Beat me to it!

Ahh, I knew I'd learned this from somewhere though =)

Tomasz



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