Re: Now Lost Boot Dir/2.6.34 Will Not Boot

2010-09-04 Thread David Baron
Using the Debian rescue CD, I installed the linux-image-2.6.32-5 and linux- base from Sid. The install edited my fstab and lilo.conf files for me, putting in the UUID numbers for everything except lilo.conf boot=. I left that as-is /dev/sda but both variations, UUID and ata-ID had previously

Re: Now Lost Boot Dir/2.6.34 Will Not Boot

2010-09-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:18:40 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: Using the Debian rescue CD, I installed the linux-image-2.6.32-5 and linux- base from Sid. The install edited my fstab and lilo.conf files for me, putting in the UUID numbers for everything except lilo.conf boot=. I left that

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-09-03 Thread Wayne Topa
On 09/02/2010 12:26 PM, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Using the Debian rescue CD, I built a 2.6.34 kernel compiling in more.However, locale issues prevented me from installing it and running lilo.Funny--worked fine last week. I got it to work today. Kernel will still not boot. I am

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-09-03 Thread Wayne Topa
On 09/02/2010 12:26 PM, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Using the Debian rescue CD, I built a 2.6.34 kernel compiling in more.However, locale issues prevented me from installing it and running lilo.Funny--worked fine last week. I got it to work today. Kernel will still not boot. I am

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-09-02 Thread d_baron
Using the Debian rescue CD, I built a 2.6.34 kernel compiling in more. However, locale issues prevented me from installing it and running lilo. Funny--worked fine last week. I got it to work today. Kernel will still not boot. I am wondering whether to bite the bullet and

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-09-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:26:45 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: The standard 2.6.32 kernel used by Squeeze (I currently use 2.6.32-5-686, version 2.6.32-20) works fine, and includes the nouveau driver. The nouveau driver seems to work OK in my experience, as long as you

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-09-01 Thread d_baron
Using the Debian rescue CD, I built a 2.6.34 kernel compiling in more. However, locale issues prevented me from installing it and running lilo. Funny--worked fine last week.I am wondering whether to bite the bullet and simply install a stock kernel. Since I need Nouveau, it would need to be a

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-09-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:50:18 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: Using the Debian rescue CD, I built a 2.6.34 kernel compiling in more. However, locale issues prevented me from installing it and running lilo. Funny--worked fine last week. I am wondering whether to bite the bullet and simply

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread Stephen Powell
David Baron wrote: Diagnostics failed in attemts to reach you, trying emial with .com Your e-mail arrived as one continuous long line. There were no line breaks whatsoever. I don't know what tool you used, but please try to fine a more user-friendly tool next time. I had to manually

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 1440488473.467512.1283175986162.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com, Stephen Powell wrote: David Baron wrote: $ cat /mnt/hdb2/etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: filesystem table.# # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass # ROOT/dev/sdb2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 #

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread d_baron
David Baron wrote:Diagnostics failed in attemts to reach you, trying emial with .comYour e-mail arrived as one continuous long line.  There were no line breaks whatsoever.  I don't know what tool you used, but please try to fine a more user-friendly tool next time.  I had to

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: David Baron wrote: $ cat /mnt/hdb2/etc/fstab # ROOT/dev/sdb2  / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1 # BOOT/dev/sdb1 /boot ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David, Your reply seems to have removed all newline characters making it unreadable. Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMe//FAAoJEKj/C3qNthmTvKsP/RPblJk6DAdkpNE8do6HGMrI

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread d_baron
defaults    1 2 /dev/DB- LVM/LV_HOME /home       ext3    defaults    1 2 #/dev/DB- LVM2/LV_AUX    /mnt/aux   ext3    defaults    1 2 I'm really confused.  As I've said before, I don't know anything about LVMs, so that may be part of the

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:16 PM, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: David Baron wrote: The lines: # ROOT /dev/sdb2  / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1 are this way in the actual file! And I thought that root and boot were commented out! :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread Carl Johnson
Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com writes: David, Your reply seems to have removed all newline characters making it unreadable. That is only the text version. The message also has an html version which is readable. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 08/30/2010 01:00 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: Your reply seems to have removed all newline characters making it unreadable. I had no problems reading the HTML version of the mail. -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o o o o . o . . o o o o .

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread John Hasler
Aaron Toponce writes: I had no problems reading the HTML version of the mail. Not everyone reads mail with a browser. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-29 Thread d_baron
Progress: Using Debian Live rescue, was able to mount my volumes, reinstall the kernel, run update-initramfs and lilo. (Only thing lost was the debian.bmp which looked gosh-awful on my screen anyway--works without it.)Results, back to where I was:  2.6.34 Will Not Boot. It loads up, begins the

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:07:15 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: Progress: Using Debian Live rescue, was able to mount my volumes, reinstall the kernel, run update-initramfs and lilo. (Only thing lost was the debian.bmp which looked gosh-awful on my screen anyway--works without it.) Results,

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-27 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 26 aug 2010, at 20:39, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: All of the data (except for the boot dir which was not in LVM) should be perfectly intact. I need a live CD which supports LVM (Knoppix 5.* does not) which will mount these volumes. From there, I can either copy off needed data to

Now lost boot dir

2010-08-26 Thread David Baron
Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? Best reply off list also. Thanks for any help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-26 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 08/26/2010 06:09 AM, David Baron wrote: Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? I'm assuming that you have more than one disk? Are they the same size? If so, you should have been using Linux software RAID to prevent the volume from losing data. Not much you can do at

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:09:16 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? Best reply off list also. Thanks for any help! As I said before, I have no experience with LVMs and therefore can't be of much help on a recovery. Sorry. -- .''`.

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-26 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 26/08/2010 à 14:09, David Baron a écrit : Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? Best reply off list also. Thanks for any help! I just subscribe to the list and have only the abovz message, which is not enought for me to understand your problem :( Can you

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-26 Thread d_baron
Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? Best reply off list also. Thanks for any help! As I said before, I have no experience with LVMs and therefore can't be of much help on a recovery.  Sorry.All of the data (except for the boot dir which was not in LVM) should

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:39 PM, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? Best reply off list also. Thanks for any help! As I said before, I have no experience with LVMs and therefore can't be of much help on a recovery.  Sorry. All of the