On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. For the record, the HTML is somewhat more readable than the plain text. What might be the problem there? > X-Mailer: Oracle Communications Messenger Express > 7u4-23.01(7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011) Yeah, that might be the problem. :) > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > -- For more information, please reread.
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