[GLLUG] Lost LILO, Can't Boot

[Sean]

The way i have always done it is my booting off a disk mounting the 
drives and using the alternative configuration file for Lilo ie lilo -C so 
lilo isnt looking in the /etc/ directory of the emergency boot disk for 
the lilo.conf file and instead can use the correct one. 

For emergency disks, I usually use the redhat install disk and type rescue 
at the prompt.



On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Matt Graham wrote:

> On Wednesday 18 September 2002 08:57, after a long battle with 
> technology, Brian Hoort wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Try this instead:
> 
> mount /dev/hda6 /mnt
> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/boot
> chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo
> 
> Yeah, minor detail, but kind of important.  If /boot/boot.b isn't there, 
> LILO gets confused.
> 
>