[Techtalk] lilo gone bad

Lemanski, Lahoma J. LJLemanski at mail.ifas.ufl.edu
Mon Jan 7 11:59:41 EST 2002


If you look on the installation cd, there is a folder named DosUtils, in
there you will find a program called rawrite and several boot images. You
can copy those images and the program to your computer ( I am assuming that
you can boot into windows). Run the rawrite program, and specify the boot
image you want it to write and the target drive and viola, you have a new RH
7.1 boot floppy.
Hope this helps, 
Lahoma

-----Original Message-----
From: tanvir_31337 [mailto:tanvir_31337 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:20 PM
To: Techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: RE: [Techtalk] lilo gone bad


I went to the Rescue Mode. After asking my language and keyboard it got 
landed in something like sh-2.04# from where I could do nothing. I tried 
uname/ mkbootdisk etc and also searched for /etc/lilo.conf but no luck. How 
can I mount my root partition from there?? I tried to use df/ du to see 
what my root partition is but failed. WHat's the command to see the 
partitions? And once I find the partition what'll I do?

Further help plz.


At 03:29 PM 1/6/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>You can boot directly from the RH7.1 CD and chose rescue mode. It'll ask
you
>a couple of questions, but will eventually load it's own kernel. You will
>then be able to mount your root partition and have access to lilo and
>lilo.conf (and the lilo man page) and you can recreate your disk.
>
>Itai.
>
>
>MY LILO floppy has gone out of order suddenly (it can't load the kernel)
>and I can't log in to my RedHat Linux. Is there any way I can make another
>LILO floppy disk by keeping my existing installation intact? If so, how?
>The system is RHL 7.1 using vmlinuz dual mode with w2k.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated.


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