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

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

My bad, that's the "BootPrompt-HOWTO"

Peter Lukas

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Peter Lukas wrote:

> 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'?
> > -- 
> > .------ ----- ---- ---- --- --- -- -- - -  -   -    -
> > |               Mike Hicks | Linux User Since: 1.2.13
> > : http://umn.edu/~hick0088 | mailto:hick0088@tc.umn.edu
> > `              icq:6883760 | Current Kernel: 2.2.1
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