Re: Linux should not be booting
Carlos E. Davila wrote:
[...] but this evidently does not overwrite the boot sector, does
grub-install do this?
Yes.
> I have yet to run grub-install. Of course, this
would not explain why my system still boots after deleting the vmlinuz
files.
Did you evaluate our little theories? I imagine your first partition is
your /boot (the second beeing your volume group, right?). If the filesystem
on this first partition disappeared from your fstab for some reason, it
could explain everything.
# mount /dev/disk/by-id/$DISK-part1 /mnt
# tree /mnt
The files in my /boot/ directory (before I deleted them...actually moved
them to my home directory for safe keeping) were:
default device.map menu.lst menu.lst~ menu.lst_backup
That would be /boot/grub.
Should the grub image files be here as well?
Yep.
Anyway, I see you have lilo installed in your boot sector, were you
chainloading or is it recent?
-thib
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