[GLLUG] Lost LILO, Can't Boot

[Brian Hoort]

Well, I decided to try the other route--getting lilo working again so I can 
get some work done. I got a copy of Tom's RtBt. Following its instructions, I:

# mount /dev/hda6 /mnt
# mount /dev/hda1 /boot
# chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo

and it failed with an error I wrote down, and left at home. The mount 
commmands work fine, and I am able to navigate those partitions. The error 
is basically a "command not found /sbin/lilo". Yet, doing a "which lilo", a 
"locate lilo", and a "ls -l /sbin/lilo" all work fine.

I've tried all sorts or versions of that last line, including:
# /sbin/chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo
# chroot /mnt lilo
# /sbin/chroot /mnt lilo
etc.

  I can run both separately (carefully!) without difficulty, but doing a
# chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo
fails every time.

Any thoughts?

At 11:35 AM 9/10/2002, you wrote:
>Brian Hoort <hoortbri@msu.edu> writes:
>
> > During bootup, the last thing I saw it get to was APM, at which point
> > I get a panic with a screen full of hex. The last line of the screen
> > reads:
> > Code = Bad EIP value
>
>The OOPS message is probably not too useful to mere humans (I
>except Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox from this category).  Assuming
>that the OOPS caused things to scroll off the screen, can you
>scroll up with Shift+PgUp to see what came right before the OOPS?
>
> > I'll try finding a bootdisk that will work. Any theories why this one
> > won't? What sorts of things cause this?
>
>I haven't got any good clues at the moment.  I guess you could
>bring it to the Thursday meeting if that's easy.
>--
>"The road to hell is paved with convenient shortcuts."
>--Peter da Silva