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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Yep, I’ve done this..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>lilo –r /mnt/ -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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plug-bounces@plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>John Usher<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 23 February 2006
11:51 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">plug@plug.org.au</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [plug] LILO, I mean
LI</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>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.<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Thu Feb 23 11:27 , 'Jonathan Young'
<jonathan@pcphix.com> sent:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
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OK, fstab reports hda1 is swap and hda2 is / (ext3) and no other<br>
paritions proc mounted from /proc (which as I understand it means from /<br>
once it is mounted.<br>
<br>
Therefore, I have all the info I need to chroot and run Lilo if a simple<br>
edit of lilo.conf does not work (remove the -menu bit) so that it<br>
reflects the files that are there.<br>
<br>
or can I rename /boot/boot.b to /boot/boot-menu.b ??<br>
<br>
I was actually considering downloading the lilo for Ubuntu and installing<br>
it to my Live installation but chroot is a much smarter solution.<br>
<br>
Either way, my current conerns are:<br>
<br>
(see previous posts)<br>
like a regular file - what's the deal (clearly a gap in my knowledge<br>
here)?<br>
<br>
Any final suggestions before I chroot and blow Lilo away?<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2/23/2006, "Jonathan Young" <<a
href="javascript:top.opencompose('jonathan@pcphix.com','','','')">jonathan@pcphix.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
<br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>></span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>>Of course! /me slaps forehead (and
remembers what panic does to logical</span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>>thinking)</span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>></span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>>On 2/23/2006, "Senectus
." <<a href="javascript:top.opencompose('senectus@gmail.com','','','')">senectus@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>></span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>>>On 2/23/06, Jonathan Young <<a
href="javascript:top.opencompose('jonathan@pcphix.com','','','')">jonathan@pcphix.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>>>></span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>>>> I'm working through it
slowly. My main problem is I don't know the</span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>>>> layout of this drive (new
client).</span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>>>></span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>>>> I know hda1 is swap and
hda2 is the root/main partition.</span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>>>> Anyway to find out if
there are any others? Just mount them in sequence?</span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>>></span></font><br>
<font color=red><span style='color:red'>>>/etc/fstab should give you the
lowdown on how it's normally setup..</span></font><br>
<br>
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