[plug] LILO, I mean LI

[Jonathan Young]

Thanks, that's handy.

The reason we were going to chroot though is that lilo is not installed
on the OS I am running (Live CD with no Internet connection) so I wanted
to chroot in order to run the packages previously installed on my
troubled debian box (including lilo).

On 2/23/2006, "Shannon Carver" <Shannon.Carver at P-S-T.COM.AU> wrote:

>Yep, I've done this..
>
>lilo -r /mnt/ -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

>
>From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
>Behalf Of John Usher
>Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:51 AM
>To: plug at plug.org.au
>Subject: Re: [plug] LILO, I mean LI
>
>I thought lilo could handle being run without chroot but passing a file
>system root parameter - eg if your filesystem is mounted on /mnt
>temporarily then you pass --root=/mnt (example parameter, not the real
>thing, the man page is your friend). It will then also look for all
>files (and place all necessary files) relative to that path.
>
>Pretty certain that this is how installers run lilo without having to
>chroot, and I'm also fairly certain I have done it myself this way.