Re: [TCLUG:4103] HELP!! CAN'T BOOT

[Peter Lukas <peter@math.umn.edu>]

lilo is complaining when you're running it from the rescue disks because
it cannot write to a ramdisk.  You will need to tell lilo where the
alternate root directory is:  
`mount /dev/sda1 /mnt; /sbin/lilo -r /mnt
`umount /mnt; /sbin/reboot`
This is assuming that /dev/sda1 contains your root filesystem.  The LILO
HowTo will explain the significance of the LILO status indicator.  From
there, you can determine what stage the boot loader is conking out; In
your case, that's LIL+.

Peter Lukas

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Michael Hicks wrote:

> > Please help!!! I don't know what do to.
> > (When I booted to the rescue disk I ran e2fsck and it fixed some stuff, but
> > hasn't helped me).
> 
> Do you know if you can get the partition to mount without mounting it as
> the root filesystem?  Does it mount if you mount it to, say,
> '/lindrive'?
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