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Re: LILO problems,no boot, can I use Knoppix rescue to fix?



On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:02:02PM -0400, J F wrote:
> 

> Any way, I can reboot using the Knoppix CD
> as a rescue disk 
> and then edit /mnt/hda1/etc/lilo.conf .
> But when I run lilo, it
> says:
> # sudo su
> # lilo -C /mnt/hda1/etc/lilo.conf
> Fatal. Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xf000
> 
> How can I use Knoppix to fix LILO boot?

I haven't specifically tried this with a Knoppix CD, but you probably
need to use chroot.

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/boot    #assumming your /boot is in a different partition
chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo

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