Re: LI Hang, recovery?? SOLVED
I got back in by booting from an installation CD (bf2.4), with root=/dev/hda4
which was my root partition (I'd forgotten which one I was using, Knoppix
came in handy to figure that out). For some reason when I booted from that
CD my screen was jumbled, even when I switched to a text console. I guess it
was loading the wrong modules from my root partition???
Despite the jumbled screen I still managed to log in and run lilo which got me
back in business.
Thanks to everyone who responded to my post.
Chris
On Thursday 09 October 2003 16:11, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> 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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> >> Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control.
> >>
> >>
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