Re: Help ! Dead Woody after upgrade
Am Friday 08 December 2000 17:46 schrieb mallum:
> Hello all;
>
> Im running Woody on my desktop box at work. Yesterday I did an apt-get
> update, apt-get upgrade. It was a while since Id done that so quite alot of
> stuff got updated including the kernel. Everything seemed fine.
>
> Later on in the day I had to reboot and I was greeted by a continual;
>
> Lilo loading Linux .....................
>
> Lilo loading Linux .....................
>
> Lilo loading Linux .....................
>
> (over and over again with no Linux Loading)
>
> I tried the rescue option from the original potato install cd and it nearly
> came back up until the screen was filled with an error message complaining
> about loading kernel modules and not being able to write to the disk.
>
> Later on I managed to mount the hardrive via another rescue disk (via
> freshmeat) and tried to rerun lilo but it was confused about paths due to
> /dev/hda1 having to be mounted on /mnt.
Never seen this before. If you want to run lilo, you have to pass the -r
option i.e.
# lilo -r /mnt -C configfile
in order to give it the right path.
Good luck,
-Cajus
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