On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 12:41:00PM -0500, Spongebob wrote: > I did something wrong installing a newly-compiled kernel. Unfortunately, I > forgot to back up /boot, and now I have a mess. I think the map file got > corrupted. > > I now have a system which will either boot windows and nothing else or will > print an L and halt depending upon which partition I set with lilo -M. > > Windows is on /dev/hda1, Linux root is on /dev/hda4. In lilo.conf, > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hda4 > > How do I fix this? I'm using Timo's rescue disk to give me access to my > hard disk. (Using rescue root=/dev/hda4 off the Debian install cd's doesn't > work for some reason. It gives me an "unable to open initial terminal" > error and freezes.) Boot using your rescue disk and do a chroot to your root partition. Then edit your lilo.conf file to boot your old kernel again. Rerun lilo to activate the changes and reboot. - Ryan
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