Re: How do I get back my LINUX

["Chuma Agbodike" <ak349@lafn.ORG>]

> 
> On Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:36:37 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.
> > 
> > I did what you sugested ans here is what I got:
> > 
> > Lilo: "Can't resolve symbol 'chroot'.
> 
> Gasp, the stripped down version of libc on the rescue disk doesn't contain chroot() !!!! Who made the rescue disk ? This is a serious problem.

> I can offer to compile for you a statically linked lilo... or the following should work (I assume your root fs is mounted on /mnt)
> 
>    # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/lib
>    # lilo -r /mnt
> 
> This might fail (not sure) because lilo with dynamically link against /mnt/lib/libc, and once chrooted, won't find this file anymore.
> So the next thing might work too:
> 
>    # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/lib
>    # /mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo

Thanks Phil.  I tried your second option and it worked.  It 
complained about /sbin/lilo not being a directory. I went ahead and 
isued lilo -r /mnt and the LILO got updated.    THANKS

I did learn quite a bit in the process.


Chuma Agbodike
 
> This way, chroot will use your hd's libc which should contain chroot(), and then will start lilo in the chrooted environment.
> 
> If the two things fail, email me, I'll send you a statically linked lilo.
> But #2 should work... theorically...
> 
> Phil.
> 
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