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Re: How do I get back my LINUX



On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 05:11:10 GMT "Chuma Agbodike" (ak349@lafn.ORG) 
wrote:

[snip]
> Then make dep, clean, zImage. It failed . mentioning stuff like core 
> dump etc. Anyway I wanted my old LINUX back. So I edited lilo.conf to
> reflect 2.0.6 instead of 2.0.13 (I had 2.0.13 running when compile 
> failed.) PROBLEM: I forgot to run lilo before rebooting. On rebooting 
> I was greeted by ....crc error . System halted. Only way out was 
> hard reset. I thought I could just use my BOOT & ROOT diskettes to 
> fix things. I got in and shelled out. Mounted the filesystem on the 
> HD. and tried to run lilo after copying boot.b to /boot. That got me:
> 
> "Don't know how to handle device 0x100"

You're trying to install lilo on the boot/root disks.
If you've mounted your HD root fs on /mnt, use:
	lilo -r /mnt
Lilo will chroot() there before running, installing on the HD.

Phil.



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