My LILO RECOVERY http://www.toms.net/rb/ http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO-1.html
1. downloaded, uncompressed, installed to floppy, tomsrtbt 2. booted box off tomsrtbt floppy 3. fdisk -l (to see which device is boot and which is /) 4. mkdir rootpartition 5. mount /dev/hda1 /rootpartition 6. cat /rootpartition/etc/fstab (to see if /boot, /usr, /var, etc. are on other partitions) 7. mount /dev/hda3 /rootpartition/home/share 8. vi /etc/fstab a. added lines: b. /dev/hda1 /rootpartition ext2 1 1 c. /dev/hda3 /rootpartition/home/share ext2 1 1 9. cat /etc/fstab (to check vi) 10. mount -a 11. chroot /rootpartition /sbin/lilo -q 12. man chroot 13. chroot /rootpartition /sbin/lilo a. Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exist, disk scan bypassed b. Added Linux * c. Skipping vmlinuz.old 14. exit 15. hard reboot SUCCESS! Now I don't have to recreate my CUPS, SWAT, fileshare, and SAMBA WiNS and PDCE stuff! Thanks for the pointers, great ideas, and bonus info [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
