Re: LI at boot after making \boot reiserfs
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:20:09PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:35:57PM -0500, Pascal Hos wrote:
> > I seem to have messed up now.
> > I just made all my partitions except for / reiserfs (this includes
> > /boot). Now when I try to boot the computer Lilo doesn't get past LI and
> > just sits there. Of course I do not have a rescue disk that will allow
> > me to mount a reiser partition, so I'm stuck.
> > I assume that I would have to rerun lilo to get out of this, however
> > since lilo can't read /boot/boot.d it cannot update.
> > Also of importance was thæt I forgot to add the notail option for /boot
> > in fstab, however I did change this after I rebooted with standard
> > rescue disk.
> > What could I do to rectify this situation and what actually caused it?
>
> LILO is not compatible with reiserfs, either make /boot ext2 again or
> use GNU grub instead.
>
How do I get back into the system so that I can change these options?
With the rescue disk I can only get into / and nothing else is available
to me (No /usr, /boot, /var, etc)
Any suggestions?
Pascal
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