Re: Restoring old root partitions.
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:21:41PM -0600, S.Squarepants wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:27:23 -0500
> "Thomas G." <debian@staff.lan-zig.com> wrote:
> > S.Squarepants wrote:
> >
> > >On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:03:17 -0500
> > >"Thomas G." <debian@staff.lan-zig.com> wrote:
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> > >I messed up my boot sector. ....
> > >Please help me Im getting desperate.
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> > >Why not go in with a rescue disk of some sort, chroot to the original
> > >setup, run lilo and reboot into your original setup?
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> Basically, you boot up the rescue disk, mount whatever partition needed
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> For example, say your root partition is /dev/hda1. You boot the rescue
> disk. Then mount your root partition, say /mnt/hda1 (can be anywhere,
> just as an example). Then you issue the command:
This is correct but it can be easier.
At boot prompt, just type "rescue root=/dev/hda1"
For more, see:
http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-booting
Or install debian-reference-en
Osamu
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