On 18-Apr-98 Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD wrote:
> Wow, thanks so much for the quick reply. I did the re-install three times
> to make sure I did it right...
>
> I have knowledge of Unix, but forgot how to get into my root once I boot
> from floppy in recovery mode. Would you mind outlining the steps for
> this (ie., commands...)... When you ran LILO what did you do at that
> point.. just tell it to create the boot record manually?
It depends on where your /root partition is. For instance:
mount hdaX /
should work (page 180 of the RH5.0 Installation Guide - change the 'X' to
the partiton location), as should:
mount /dev/hdX / -t ext2
since you're in an emergency mode.
This would mount the /root partition and have the default path set to /bin
and /usr/bin. You can then cd to /etc and look at lilo.conf which should
look something like this:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.32
label=linux
root=/dev/hda2
append="mem=32M"
read-only
Note that you may have some other or different entries. The most important
is the 'root=' lines and any 'other=' lines for mounting things like 'Doze95
or O/S2 or something. The 'boot=' line will tell lilo where to place the
boot info. You can change it if you'd prefer booting from floppy until all
is sorted out.
After making sure lilo.conf is OK, simply type:
/sbin/lilo
and it will write to boot image.
Hope I've provided enough/accurate info and haven't missed something.
Unfortunately I have to go to work and won't be able to continue this in
the event I missed something.
Hopefully others can add anything I may have missed or correct anything I
may have stated wrong (still new here myself and still relearning to punt
when things go awry).
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