Re: Help! Debian unbootable after XP re-install :-(
On Friday 22 November 2002 01:29, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
> I had a similar problem and never solved it. I posted to this group and
> didn't get an answer. It sounds like you were running a pre-packaged
> kernel version 2.4.something - at some point the pre-packaged kernels
> started using initrd images to boot and I was never able to figure out how
> to boot via initrd via the rescue floppy . . .
>
> If you have a few hundred mb available to setup a partition, if you install
> from a CD, you should be able to get LILO back, and then enter the proper
> stanza for your full system. Then re-run LILO to get it running from your
> full systems root partition with the initrd=/initrd.img directive.
>
>
If you boot linux from the debian CD (with no argumant as for the
installation); you can then Press "CTRL ALT F2") to have a shell. You can
mount your partion chroot in it and rerunning lilo.
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