[plug] LILO, I mean LI

[Jonathan Young]

SOLUTION!  With credit to James French who called up and walked me
through a few things.  Cheers James!

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vi /crashed/etc/lilo.conf
change "install=/boot/boot-menu.b" to "install=menu"
(Lilo knows where to look, apparently)

chroot /crashed /bin/bash
(/crashed is the mount point for /dev/hda2)

unbuntu#
(root prompt in new location)

run lilo with no arguments to fix things up

reboot...

checking forced (should have mounted hda2 as ext3 (defaulted to ext2)

reboot...

System back to normal!

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Now I'm going to tweak the BIOS and put this system back to work!

Thanks to everyone who helped expand my knowledge.
This is the BEST way to learn despite the pressure!

- Jonathan Young


On 2/23/2006, "Senectus ." <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:

>On 2/23/06, Jonathan Young <jonathan at pcphix.com> wrote:
>> >Uh.. I have vague memories of doing stuff like this many years ago..
>> >Things I vaguely remember:
>> >when your done you need to unchroot (can't remember that process for
>> >that) then umount all the mounted stuff you were chrooted in.
>>
>> It's a Live CD - can't I just reboot!!?
>
>As I said.. Vague memories.. something about not umounting properly
>from a chroot can cause bad corruptions
>
>> it lists:
>> lrwxrwxrwx (l for link?)
>> root/root as the owner
>> boot.b -> boot-menu.b
>
>Yeah so it's a link.
>
>> So I guess it points to...
>
>so boot.b is the link to the actual file boot-menu.b
>(can anyone explain why they would do this?)
>
>> >you should be able to rename files in the boot dir if you want.. but
>> >for what purpose? backup?
>>
>> To make the file /boot/boot.b match the lilo.conf file line
>> install=/boot/boot-menu.b
>
>Personally I'd make a copy of it and name it boot-menu.b.old then edit
>the original.. seems safer to me.
>
>> I have just tried vice versa (edited lilo.conf) to no avail.  Still LI on
>> boot attempt.
>I probably shouldn't be giving you advice on LiLO as I only know
>enough to get me in trouble.. but from memory you edit the lilo.conf
>then run lilo and it writes that info to the boot menu..?
>In theory you should never have to actually touch the boot-menu.b file?
>
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