* Reg lilo.conf changed and system doesn't boot
@ 2001-09-07 17:57 SATHISH.J
2001-09-07 22:26 ` Frank Schneider
2001-09-07 22:36 ` Brian Gerst
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From: SATHISH.J @ 2001-09-07 17:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies, linux-kernel
Hi,
I know that this is not the place to ask this question.Please forgive me.
I changed the lilo.conf on my machine(redhat 2.2.14-12 kernel) and it
doesn't boot up. I don't have
a boot floppy to boot. I have another disk which has an older version of
linux(2.2.6). I can mount the disk if I boot from the other
disk(2.2.6). Can I
in some way alter the lilo.conf of my disk(2.2.14) and boot linux from
that. Please tell me any ideas to do that.
Thanks in advance,
Warm regards,
satishj
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* Re: Reg lilo.conf changed and system doesn't boot
2001-09-07 17:57 Reg lilo.conf changed and system doesn't boot SATHISH.J
@ 2001-09-07 22:26 ` Frank Schneider
2001-09-07 22:36 ` Brian Gerst
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From: Frank Schneider @ 2001-09-07 22:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: SATHISH.J; +Cc: kernelnewbies, linux-kernel
"SATHISH.J" schrieb:
>
> Hi,
> I know that this is not the place to ask this question.Please forgive me.
> I changed the lilo.conf on my machine(redhat 2.2.14-12 kernel) and it
> doesn't boot up. I don't have
> a boot floppy to boot. I have another disk which has an older version of
> linux(2.2.6). I can mount the disk if I boot from the other
> disk(2.2.6). Can I
> in some way alter the lilo.conf of my disk(2.2.14) and boot linux from
> that. Please tell me any ideas to do that.
Hello..
Seems you have installed a new kernel and not called lilo before
reboot...
I would suggest one of these two ways:
-Boot from your older hdd and mount the new one, e.g. under /mnt/test.
Call lilo, but give him the configfile from your new hdd, it should ly
under /mnt/test/etc/lilo.conf, if you have mounted your new, defective
linux under /mnt/test: "lilo -C /mnt/test/etc/lilo.conf
Before, check that your lilo.conf is correct!
(I have to admit that i' ve never tried this myself)
-Boot from your older hdd and use the distro-tools to produce an
"emergency repair disk", e.g. "mkbootdisk" under RedHat or "yast" under
SuSE. Use this repairdisk to boot the defective linux-installation,
check /etc/lilo.conf and call lilo.
And one hint:
It is always a good idea to have a bootdisk on hand...:-)
Solong..
Frank.
--
Frank Schneider, <SPATZ1@T-ONLINE.DE>.
Microsoft isn't the answer.
Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
... -.-
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* Re: Reg lilo.conf changed and system doesn't boot
2001-09-07 17:57 Reg lilo.conf changed and system doesn't boot SATHISH.J
2001-09-07 22:26 ` Frank Schneider
@ 2001-09-07 22:36 ` Brian Gerst
2001-09-09 5:14 ` SATHISH.J
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From: Brian Gerst @ 2001-09-07 22:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: SATHISH.J; +Cc: kernelnewbies, linux-kernel
"SATHISH.J" wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I know that this is not the place to ask this question.Please forgive me.
> I changed the lilo.conf on my machine(redhat 2.2.14-12 kernel) and it
> doesn't boot up. I don't have
> a boot floppy to boot. I have another disk which has an older version of
> linux(2.2.6). I can mount the disk if I boot from the other
> disk(2.2.6). Can I
> in some way alter the lilo.conf of my disk(2.2.14) and boot linux from
> that. Please tell me any ideas to do that.
Boot your 2.2.6 disk, and make a boot floppy from that. Put in the
original disk and boot from the floppy. Check your lilo.conf and rerun
lilo.
--
Brian Gerst
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* Re: Reg lilo.conf changed and system doesn't boot
2001-09-07 22:36 ` Brian Gerst
@ 2001-09-09 5:14 ` SATHISH.J
2001-09-10 1:02 ` Daniel Phillips
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: SATHISH.J @ 2001-09-09 5:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Brian Gerst; +Cc: kernelnewbies, linux-kernel
Hi,
Thanks fot the suggestion.
I tried that but it panics. Will I be able to change anything inside the
boot floppy after it has been made with 2.2.6 kernel so that I can boot
2.2.14.
Warm regs,
sathish
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Brian Gerst wrote:
> "SATHISH.J" wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I know that this is not the place to ask this question.Please forgive me.
> > I changed the lilo.conf on my machine(redhat 2.2.14-12 kernel) and it
> > doesn't boot up. I don't have
> > a boot floppy to boot. I have another disk which has an older version of
> > linux(2.2.6). I can mount the disk if I boot from the other
> > disk(2.2.6). Can I
> > in some way alter the lilo.conf of my disk(2.2.14) and boot linux from
> > that. Please tell me any ideas to do that.
>
> Boot your 2.2.6 disk, and make a boot floppy from that. Put in the
> original disk and boot from the floppy. Check your lilo.conf and rerun
> lilo.
>
> --
>
> Brian Gerst
>
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* Re: Reg lilo.conf changed and system doesn't boot
2001-09-09 5:14 ` SATHISH.J
@ 2001-09-10 1:02 ` Daniel Phillips
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Phillips @ 2001-09-10 1:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: SATHISH.J, Brian Gerst; +Cc: kernelnewbies, linux-kernel
On September 9, 2001 07:14 am, SATHISH.J wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks fot the suggestion.
> I tried that but it panics. Will I be able to change anything inside the
> boot floppy after it has been made with 2.2.6 kernel so that I can boot
> 2.2.14.
Usually the easiest thing to do is boot from any install CD and hit
Ctrl-Alt-F1, which will give you a command prompt. Then you can mount your
hard disk, edit /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo, something like this:
mkdir /a # a convenient mount point on the CD's ramdisk
mount /dev/hda? /a # Change "?" to the number of your root partition
ls /a # you should see bin, usr, etc.
mcedit /a/etc/lilo.conf # fix your configuration
lilo -r /a # rerun lilo, chrooting to your disk first
# take out the CD and reboot
Caveat: I've never tried this myself. Take a look at the lilo docs to see
some examples of how your lilo.conf should look.
If you need further help you should consider joining an irc channel, for
example, irc.openprojects.net #linpeople
Linux kernel mailing list isn't the right place to ask this kind of
question.
--
Daniel
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
> > "SATHISH.J" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I know that this is not the place to ask this question.Please forgive me.
> > > I changed the lilo.conf on my machine(redhat 2.2.14-12 kernel) and it
> > > doesn't boot up. I don't have
> > > a boot floppy to boot. I have another disk which has an older version of
> > > linux(2.2.6). I can mount the disk if I boot from the other
> > > disk(2.2.6). Can I
> > > in some way alter the lilo.conf of my disk(2.2.14) and boot linux from
> > > that. Please tell me any ideas to do that.
> >
> > Boot your 2.2.6 disk, and make a boot floppy from that. Put in the
> > original disk and boot from the floppy. Check your lilo.conf and rerun
> > lilo.
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