Re: How do you repair a bad LILO?
well, if you didn't boot with the correct root filesystem, it won't be
able to find the lilo.conf, unless you pass it as an option to lilo.
so check if the correct / is mounted, if its is and /etc/lilo.conf is
missing you'll have to rebuild it from scratch. If it's not the correct
/, then mount it manually, and do a lilo -f /mntpoint/etc/lilo.conf
shaya potter
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 01:01, jennyw wrote:
> Thanks, Shaya. I did that and that's when it told me that lilo.conf didn't
> exist. At this point I suspected that the absence of lilo.conf might
> indicated that the problems with my filesystem were more severe than I
> thought so I did a reinstall ... however, is there a way to run without
> lilo.conf being present? I mean, create a new one?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shaya Potter" <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>
> To: "jennyw" <jennyw@dangerousideas.com>
> Cc: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 9:37 PM
> Subject: Re: How do you repair a bad LILO?
>
>
> > boot off the cd like that they told you (or floppy)
> >
> > then login as root
> >
> > run /sbin/lilo by hand, that should reinstall lilo for you.
> >
> > shaya
> >
> > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 00:25, jennyw wrote:
> > > I reinstalled Debian 2.2. After installing the base system, it rebooted
> fine
> > > to finish the rest of the install. I logged in and used it for a bit
> then
> > > decided to reboot again. This time it hung after showing "LIL-". I asked
> on
> > > #debian on IRC and folks said this meant I had a bad LILO MBR. Someone
> > > suggested that I try typing "rescue root=/dev/hda1" at the boot:
> prompt. I
> > > tried this booting off of the install CD and it ended up loading my
> Debian
> > > install just fine, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem when I reboot.
> > >
> > > I then booted off a boot floppy and tried to run lilo. It said that
> there
> > > was no lilo.conf file. I did a search on the filesystem for lilo.conf
> and
> > > there is no file anywhere ... At this point I'm reinstalling (again!),
> but
> > > I'd like to know how to fix this problem for the future.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Jen
> > >
> > >
> > >
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