btw. the main reason i think it fails is becuase there are no /dev/*
files. as such, it can't install the bootloader into /dev/hda(1) (or
/dev/hde in my case)
executing the following script without chroot'ing the mounted partition
solves this in my case.
On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 19:56, Roger wrote:
> Choosing to "reinstall the bootloader" option fails for my purpose. The
> following details the scenario i just performed manually. Basically, i
> had to backup my entire "/" and then reformatted my install partition
> and then copied the entire "/" back to the partititon. I then had to
> re-install lilo.
>
> Scenario:
>
> 1) have an xfs partition at /dev/hde1 containing all of "/"
> 2) cp -ax /* /mnt/{alternate backup hdd}
>
> deleted and re-formated /dev/hde1 and reboot using mandrake82 cdrom#1
> using the F1 & rescue process.
>
> 1) recreated an xfs partition on /dev/hde1
> 2) mount /dev/hde1 /mnt/disk
> 3) mount /dev/hdh1 /mnt/disk2 (the hdd that contains the backup of "/")
> 2) cp -ax /mnt/{alternate backup hdd}/* /mnt/disk2
>
> I then created a small script in /boot that contains the following line:
> #!/bin/bash
> echo 'image=vmlinuz-smp append="devfs=mount" root=/dev/hde1
> initrd=initrd-smp.img' | ../sbin/lilo -C - -b /dev/hde -i ./boot.b -m
> ./map -s ./boot.b -d60
>
>
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