Re: LILO help please
On Sunday 16 November 2003 01:41, stan wrote:
> I'm trying to recover from a hard drive failure on my main workstation.
>
> I posted to this list the other day, and recieved some very helpful
> replies, which I seem to have deleted, by mistak :-(
>
> In any cas, I've replaced the disk, partioned it, adn restored all of the
> files from an amanda backup. Now I need to make the disk bootable.
>
> As, I recall, this involves booting from the rescue disk, and running liol,
> but I cannot remeber the corect options, and the man page is confusing me.
>
Boot from your rescue floppy
Mount what you want to be the root in the working system
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
[or something similar]
chroot /mnt
/sbin/lilo
This assumes that your root isn't corrupt and still has a valid /etc/lilo.conf
--
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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