On Wednesday 21 October 2015 10:35:25 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 October 2015 09:56:18 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300 > > > > > > d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > > > > ----- 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 >lo and ran from command line > > > > specifying the configuration file and map. This is what I > > > > get:Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed>device 12 (NFS/RAID > > > > mirror down ?)> Ok, no segment fault. If I use the -q option, it > > > > will display my boot choices.So, what's next?> An 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.)< > > > > > > Quoting the relevant query: "So what can I do about this?" > > > > > > Send properly formatted mail, so it is legible ? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Ron. > > > > +1, this stuff isn't readable. > > For the record, the HTML is somewhat more readable than the > plain text. > What might be the problem there? > > > X-Mailer: Oracle Communications Messenger Express > > 7u4-23.01(7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011) > > Yeah, that might be the problem. :)
Same as the OP's email agent, but one of the other replies here is using icedove, whatever that is. So there are at least 2 problem children here in terms of the email agents being used. I am on several other mailing lists, and the use of the Oracle email agent seems to be a fairly common problem. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>