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Re: LI at boot after making \boot reiserfs



Boot the rescue disk.

mount -a

( this will mount all filesystems listed in your /etc/fstab )


On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 12:28:14AM -0500, Pascal Hos wrote:
> 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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