how to fix broken lilo? [SOLVED]

mahdi1234 · Guru Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 559 Location: Being There

hi,

i just resized some of my partitions - including fat32 with data and boot/root one on ext2. though after rebooting there's no lilo anymore and only 999999 appears.

I have booted into knoppix, did su, chroot /mnt/hdc7 and tried to run /sbin/lilo - but i got error

mahdi1234 · Guru Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 559 Location: Being There

figured out one more thing ... i probaly need to mount boot as well for lilo to compare against conf, though this happens

dwblas · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:52 am Post subject:

First, check that hdc7 is actually mounted. Trying to mount hdc6 as boot won't work. First of all, Knoppix has it's own /boot partition that is different from yours, and second, it will not access your /etc/fstab so it doesn't know where to mount it. I don't think you need it, but don't really know, but you can mount your hdc6 (boot) somewhere and then see man lilo. I think you want the -C option to specifiy where your /etc/config file is actually located.

mahdi1234 · Guru Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 559 Location: Being There

I'm now off my linux comp so cannot try your suggestion - though I'm mounting boot folder when in chrooted environment i.e. under my gentoo system and it SHOULD recognize correctly my fstab - at least when I fired MC it did recognized all my customization.

Same applies to running /sbin/lilo - it is under chrooted environment, not the knoppix one.

dwblas · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:46 pm Post subject:

Yes that should work --But It Isn't--, so check everything. Do you have 3 disk drives in your computer, hda, hdb, & hdc?? If you still don't get it running, please post your /etc/fstab file. That could also be the problem.

mahdi1234 · Guru Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 559 Location: Being There

thanks for suggestions ... at the end it worked this way

boot under knoppix and then