Re: System Dorked -- Help!
On Wednesday 21 October 2015 09:56:18 Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> 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?"
>
> Send properly formatted mail, so it is legible ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron.
+1, this stuff isn't readable.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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