Re: LI Hang, recovery??
Christof Hurschler wrote:
> it just stops with "LI" and goes no further. I read in the archives that
> this means that Lilo can't completely load.
>
> .. but what does the "rescue" command do?
you have to boot from the cdrom/floppy in rescue mod, then mount the
complete system hierarchy under some directory (e.g. /mnt/sysimage), chroot
to this directory and re-run lilo.
Bye
>
> Chris
>
>> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:05AM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote:
>>
>> > I'm getting the LI hang on boot. I tried booting from my floppy, but
>> > it gives me a kernel panic...
>>
>> with what message?
>>
>> > I now read that I can boot from floppy with the "rescue
>> > root=/dev/hda1",
>> but
>> > I'm assuming that this is the default mode the floppy boots in anyways,
>> or
>> > is it?
>>
>> is /dev/hda1 your / partition?
>>
>> if it isn't, if it is /dev/hdb2 or something, then boot from the rescue
>> floopy
>> so :
>>
>> linux root=/dev/hdb2
>>
>> > If I could get back in with the floppy, I'd try rerunning LILO to get
>> things
>> > back in order, but I'm afraid I'm not going to get that far. Any
>> > suggestions? How can I tell if I've got a real hardware problem?
>> Knoppix?
>>
>> you can boot with the floppy even if you have hw(hdd) problems.
>> if you cannot boot with root= explicit given, then boot with the
>> installfloppy, wait until he wants to have rootfs disk, give it him,
>> and when the installscreen comes, alt+f2 and you have a shell.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> charlie
>>
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>>
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