Re: System Dorked -- Help!
On Wednesday 21 October 2015 10:35:25 Darac Marjal wrote:
> 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. :)
Same as the OP's email agent, but one of the other replies here is using
icedove, whatever that is. So there are at least 2 problem children
here in terms of the email agents being used. I am on several other
mailing lists, and the use of the Oracle email agent seems to be a
fairly common 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>
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>
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