----- Original Message -----From: d_ba...@012.net.ilDate: Wednesday, October
21, 2015 11:18 amSubject: Re: System Dorked -- Help!To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org> ----- Original Message -----> From:
d_ba...@012.net.il> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:24 am> Subject: System
Dorked -- Help!> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org> > After being warned of
impending failure of my oldie but goodie 80gig disk -- I had placed my root
directory there because the installation's partition was too small and did this
successfully -- I moved the root directory to a partition on another disk,
edited files, ran lilo, seemingly successfully, and voile: No boot. Get 99's or
nothing at all.Going into a live Debian 7, I mounted the old and new
partitions, copied the modified files (which had been done on the old version
:-( ) and chroot and tried to re-run lilo. Segmentation fault. I had been
running an up-to-date Sid so maybe that is the problem. The lilo is on the
partition, not on the live distro.> > Fact is, with certain combination of
cabling, I had the bootloader actually work, load the initrd, and start up, but
the new root was not connected so could not proceed. So what can I do about
this?> > More:I installed to the live distro its lilo and ran from command
line specifying the configuration file and map. This is what I get:Fatal:
Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0012 (NFS/RAID mirror down ?)> Ok, no
segment fault. If I use the -q option, it will display my boot choices.So,
what's next?> And more::Found by Googling that I can bind /proc, /dev to
chroot and then the installed lilo will run! Same results with or without /proc
binding. /dev binding got rid of the original error.Boots up with a load of
errors but I am now in a machine called "Kali Linux" I cannot log on to
anything. Errors too numerous and fast to see. ACPI, does not work on this
system anyway. Login service failed to start. Etc.So maybe!! almost there. What
else need I do get back to where I was? Something else to bind?Copy to restore
from the original root directory?(Possibly the "user" login from the live
distro might work (password?), and I could recreate previous users if need be
but that does not touch the other errors.)
