On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:47:46PM -0700, John Schofield wrote: > > I'm working on a Pentium III system with two IDE hard drives. > > I had Red Hat 8 installed on /dev/hda2, with /boot mounted on > /dev/hda1. Booting via grub. > > I installed Debian Woody on /dev/hdb2. /dev/hdb3 is swap, and > /dev/hdb1 is a partition on which I'm building a Linux From Scratch > system. > > Debian boots no problem after Lilo installed, however, Red Hat no > longer boots. Please post your /etc/lilo.conf. Once you boot to Debian, you can mount /dev/hda1 and determine what the Red Hat filenames are. Alternative: install grub from Debian. Then use the update-grub script to help build a /boot/grub/menu.lst that includes all your bootable kernels. > > I'm not at all sure what I'm doing with Lilo. My problem is compounded > by the fact that I didn't record the grub settings before Lilo wiped > them, and can't seem to mount the /boot partition on /dev/hda1 to find > out the correct path for the image and initrd. (I'm running the latest > kernel as installed by Red Hat.) > > Any ideas as to what I need to look at to figure out what I need to to > next? (Anybody know what the image and initrd lines SHOULD say for my > version of RedHat?) > > Any ideas why I can't get boot to mount? I enter "mount /dev/hda1 > /mnt/temp2" and get "Invalid MFT record 0 Mount: Wrongs FS type, bad > option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file > systems." Are you root when you try this? Assuming ext2 files system: # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt > > > Thanks a bunch! > > Schof > > > John Schofield > Apple Certified Technical Coordinator > Macintosh, PC, and Unix Computer Support > www.officemechanic.com > > > -- Jerome
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