Re: System Dorked -- Help!
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300
d_baron@012.net.il wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----From: d_baron@012.net.ilDate: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 11:18 amSubject: Re: System Dorked -- Help!To: >debian-user@lists.debian.org> ----- Original Message -----> From: d_baron@012.net.il> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:24 am> >Subject: System Dorked -- Help!> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org> > After being warned of impending failure of my oldie but goodie >80gig disk -- I had placed my root directory there because the installation's partition was too small and did this successfully -- I moved the >root directory to a partition on another disk, edited files, ran lilo, seemingly successfully, and voile: No boot. Get 99's or nothing at >all.Going into a live Debian 7, I mounted the old and new partitions, copied the modified files (which had been done on the old version :->>( ) and chroot and tried to re-run lilo. Segmentation fault. I had been running an up-to-date Sid so maybe that is the problem. The lilo is >on the partition, not on the live distro.> > Fact is, with certain combination of cabling, I had the bootloader actually work, load the initrd, >and start up, but the new root was not connected so could not proceed. So what can I do about this?> > More:I installed to the live distro >lo and ran from command line specifying the configuration file and map. This is what I get:Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed>device 12 (NFS/RAID mirror down ?)> Ok, no segment fault. If I use the -q option, it will display my boot choices.So, what's next?> An more::Found <><by Googling that I can bind /proc, /dev to chroot and then the installed lilo will run! Same results with or without /proc binding.> /dev binding got rid of the original error.Boots up with a load of errors but I am now in a machine called "Kali Linux" I cannot log on to anything.< <Errors too numerous and fast to see. ACPI, does not work on this system anyway. Login service failed to start. Etc.So maybe!! almost there. What else need I do get back to where I was? Something else to bind?Copy to restore from the original root directory?(Possibly the "user"< login from the live distro might work (password?), and I could recreate previous users if need be but that does not touch the other errors.)<
Quoting the relevant query: "So what can I do about this?"
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Cheers,
Ron.
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