Re: Kernel boots from floppy, not from hard drive
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:14:46AM -0800, Albert Kinderman wrote:
> I dual boot, using another boot manager to get to lilo on my
> debian partition.
>
> Everything worked fine until two days ago, when I made a new
> kernel using make-kpkg. I used dpkg to install the resulting .deb
> and created a boot floppy as part of the installation. I also
> stupidly tried to clean up some cruft from old kernels that was
> lying around in /boot (LESSON: do not make two changes at one
> time). Now I can boot from the boot floppy, but the boot from the
> hard disk dies after
>
> LILO loading <label from lilo.conf> ......
Can you boot your prior working kernel? If so, do that.
If not and you still have deb for prior kernel, you should be able to
reinstall the prior kernel by booting from floppy, mounting your hard
disk partitions, and using chroot to run dpkg and lilo.
> s
>
> I tried to mount the boot floppy to see what it had that wasn't in
> /boot, but mount kept giving me wrong fs or bad superblock errors.
>
> What should I try next?
>
> Al
>
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> Department of Systems and Operations Management
>
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