Re: LI Hang, recovery??
Thanks so much for the response, I got it working (see my SOLVED post).
in the process of trying to get things working I did try Knoppix, I saw that
my partition was ok, since Knoppix was able to mount it, and I could also
tell which partition was actually my root partition because it had been a
while since I had installed Debian. I didn't get chroot to work because I
wasn't using chroot correctly, so thanks for the full command line on that.
I think that will be something usefull to know in the future.
Chris
On Thursday 09 October 2003 20:21, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 11:33 GMT, Christof Hurschler penned:
> > it just stops with "LI" and goes no further. I read in the archives
> > that this means that Lilo can't completely load.
> >
> > .. but what does the "rescue" command do?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:05AM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote:
> >> > I'm getting the LI hang on boot. I tried booting from my floppy,
> >> > but it gives me a kernel panic...
> >>
> >> with what message?
> >>
> >> > I now read that I can boot from floppy with the "rescue
> >> > root=/dev/hda1",
> >>
> >> but
> >>
> >> > I'm assuming that this is the default mode the floppy boots in
> >> > anyways,
> >>
> >> or
> >>
> >> > is it?
> >>
> >> is /dev/hda1 your / partition?
> >>
> >> if it isn't, if it is /dev/hdb2 or something, then boot from the
> >> rescue floopy so :
> >>
> >> linux root=/dev/hdb2
> >>
> >> > If I could get back in with the floppy, I'd try rerunning LILO to
> >> > get
> >>
> >> things
> >>
> >> > back in order, but I'm afraid I'm not going to get that far. Any
> >> > suggestions? How can I tell if I've got a real hardware problem?
> >>
> >> Knoppix?
> >>
> >> you can boot with the floppy even if you have hw(hdd) problems. if
> >> you cannot boot with root= explicit given, then boot with the
> >> installfloppy, wait until he wants to have rootfs disk, give it him,
> >> and when the installscreen comes, alt+f2 and you have a shell.
> >>
> >> HTH
> >>
> >> charlie
>
> Apologies if you've already addressed these questions and I just don't
> remember, but:
>
> * was your machine ever working under linux *before* lilo started doing
> this? if so, did you change any hardware or software, or did you run
> an update that prompted you to run lilo? if not, through what means
> did lilo get installed on your system?
>
> * you may find it easier to boot into a full linux install and work on
> fixing your installation from there. If you have access to a CD
> burner, I strongly recommend burning yourself a Knoppix (knoppix.org)
> CD and booting off of that.
>
> * when you've booted off of <whatever>, take a look at the lilo.conf and
> let us know what it says. Particularly, double-check that the "boot"
> and "root" entries are correct. Make sure that the "image" file
> listed under your "default" label is a file that actually exists.
>
> * in any event, it sounds like you're going to need to re-run lilo. If
> you've booted off of another system, like a floppy or knoppix, you can
> mount your "real" drive somewhere and edit its lilo.conf. After
> you've done that, you'll want to run
> chroot /new_root /sbin/lilo
> where /new_root is the mount-point of your "real" drive
>
> --
> monique
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