[plug] LILO, I mean LI

[Jonathan Young]

OK, fstab reports hda1 is swap and hda2 is / (ext3) and no other
paritions proc mounted from /proc (which as I understand it means from /
once it is mounted.

Therefore, I have all the info I need to chroot and run Lilo if a simple
edit of lilo.conf does not work (remove the -menu bit) so that it
reflects the files that are there.

or can I rename /boot/boot.b to /boot/boot-menu.b  ??

I was actually considering downloading the lilo for Ubuntu and installing
it to my Live installation but chroot is a much smarter solution.

Either way, my current conerns are:

* lilo.conf refers to a file that does not exist on the line install=
(see previous posts)
* boot.b is shown in inverted colours when using ls and does not behave
like a regular file - what's the deal (clearly a gap in my knowledge
here)?

Any final suggestions before I chroot and blow Lilo away?


On 2/23/2006, "Jonathan Young" <jonathan at pcphix.com> wrote:

>
>Of course! /me slaps forehead (and remembers what panic does to logical
>thinking)
>
>On 2/23/2006, "Senectus ." <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 2/23/06, Jonathan Young <jonathan at pcphix.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm working through it slowly.  My main problem is I don't know the
>>> layout of this drive (new client).
>>>
>>> I know hda1 is swap and hda2 is the root/main partition.
>>> Anyway to find out if there are any others?  Just mount them in sequence?
>>
>>/etc/fstab should give you the lowdown on how it's normally setup..


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