Re: [vox] repairing LILO on RH 7.1 install.

[Geoffrey Herteg <gherteg@valinux.MAPScom>]

Yeah, I thought it would be pretty straight forward myself.

In my (admittedly limited) experience with recovery disks, the process went
something like this:

1) Put bootable CD into CD drive or floppy into fd0
2) Wait for LILO boot:
3) Type 'linux single root=/dev/hda1 initrd=' (the 'initrd=' is to prevent a
ramdisk from being loaded).
4) Watch all the pretty boot messages.  When the login: prompt appears, log
in as root.
5) Edit /etc/lilo.conf, make sure the default boot is /dev/hda1, run lilo.
6) Reboot without any disks in the removable drives.

Things that have gotten me before would be forgetting to set the hard drive
to master (not a problem here, since both drives had been master), passing
the wrong partition using root=, and forgetting about initrd= and having an
initial ramdisk load...

I guess, if this process doesn't work, I'm out of ideas...  Anyone else
wanna give it a go?

-- Geoffrey

begin  John McDonnell quotation:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Geoffrey Herteg wrote:
> 
> > What's the layout of your hard drive?  Can you paste the partition
> > information into an email and post it?
> 
> when I boot of the 2nd HD, the partition scheme is:
> 
> /dev/hda1 /
> /dev/hdc1 /mnt/old_box
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/old_box/mp3
> /dev/hda6 /mnt/old_box/home
> 
> trying to boot, I have switched cables so that it should be:
> 
> /dev/hda1 /
> /dev/hda5 /mp3
> /dev/hda6 /home
> 
> apologies if this isn't quite what you're looking for but the Linux box is
> in another room, isolated from the world due to lack of various cables.
> 
> I've tried to make the two installs as similar as possible and was hoping
> that it would be fairly straightforward.
> 
> johnmc.
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