On Sunday 16 November 2003 01:41, stan wrote: > I'm trying to recover from a hard drive failure on my main workstation. > > I posted to this list the other day, and recieved some very helpful > replies, which I seem to have deleted, by mistak :-( > > In any cas, I've replaced the disk, partioned it, adn restored all of the > files from an amanda backup. Now I need to make the disk bootable. > > As, I recall, this involves booting from the rescue disk, and running liol, > but I cannot remeber the corect options, and the man page is confusing me. >
Boot from your rescue floppy Mount what you want to be the root in the working system mount /dev/hda1 /mnt [or something similar] chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo This assumes that your root isn't corrupt and still has a valid /etc/lilo.conf -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
