Re: woody->sarge i386 (lilo?) upgrade woes

["Josh Narins" <josh_narins@hotmail.com>]

> From: Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:39:15 +0000
>
> On (14/02/05 13:51), Josh Narins wrote:
> >
> > Dear, dear debian users,
> >
> > What I did.
> >
> >  Upgrade from Woody to Sarge on x86.
> >  Ignored "update your lilo" message.
> >  Network disconnected right as upgrade was nearing completion.
> >  I rebooted.
> >
> > Symptoms
> >
> >  Boot no longer has lilo boot menu
> >  Boot prints outs "Verifying DMI Pool Data ......."  then a line that
> > begins "LI" and hangs.
> >  Booting from CD (3.0r1 Binary1) results in "Verifying DMI Pool Data 
> ...."
> > "Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: Failure ...." and then the "LI" line.
> >
> > Assets:
> >
> >  A friend's windows machine,
> >  a CD Burner, and
> >  the debian-user list.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for helping restore my mail and webserver,
> Hi Josh
>
> You could try downloading Mepis (or Knoppix), boot off the live CD and
> mount your root directory, then edit your lilo.conf file with the
> correct kernel parameters .... if you 'ls -l /boot, you should see which
> kernel to boot off.
>
> HTH
>
> Clive

Thanks, Clive.  Turned out there was a floppy-writer available, and a 
rescue.bin and root.bin have been created.

Now the trick is finding a webpage that describes the new lilo 
configuratiion, since the old one seems to dominate.

However, I'll do that away from debian-user, since it almost seems trivial 
now.

If you do have any critical news, simply e-mail me directly.

Thanks again, especially for the bandwidth/eyetime,
Josh

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