Here are more details about exactly what I did: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:00:38AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > It sounds like you had an installed system, with files in /boot and /, > and now it's all one big partition. How did you go about consolidating > the two partitions?
I temporarily moved my files to another computer, then repartitioned (with disk druid maybe - I forget) losing my filesystem. The debian installer warned me about large disks, and I proceeded with making the largest root partition that could fit on my disk. I then installed debian on a newly created filesystem, then moved all my old files back from the other computer. I upgraded the kernel once, re-ran lilo, and rebooted successfully before since then. I have a theory that at that time, there were not many files on the disk so the kernel was placed somewhere near the beginning which was reachable by lilo. Since then I think what happened is that I upgraded the kernel once more, but left the computer running. I haven't rebooted in 3 weeks, so I never tested the new kernel in normal circumstances. Two days ago, I accidentally removed the power cord. I don't believe there was any disk activity at the time. >From memory, I installed the new kernel in /boot, and made symlinks in / > Where do you expect Lilo to find the boot files? It's looking for a > partition that isn't there. You have in your mind the idea of a > partition that contains files, but Lilo is looking for a specific > parition identifier on the disk structure, expecting specific files and > they aren't there anymore. They may still be there somewhere, but > they're not where they were. I have booted successfully from this partition before (after I repartitioned). It still shows up when I list the partition table. However, I can't even seem to mount it from the command line. > Lilo is also looking for a specific numbered partition to load DOS. Did > you change the numbering when you turned your two partitions into one? > What is Lilo looking for? I left the DOS partition in place, without resizing or moving it. Unfortunately, I forgot to tell lilo about it. > When you "failed to mount" what command line or arguments did > you use? What's "-t XXX", etc.? I didn't use -t, just: mount /dev/hda1 root It is (was?) an ext3 filesystem. Thanks for your help! Ryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
