On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:57:33PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: > > There was a similar question few days/weeks ago; the way I do it is to > > boot off an install cd, mount the system fs at /mnt/foo; and do chroot > > /mnt/foo. Then I can play with the system, as if I booted normally. > > The tricky part is to resolve which partition your system resides on ;-) > > This worked. Here the way I did it (maybe for the FAQ) > > .) Booting with the installation DVD (testing) > .) Aborting the installation process to get to the main menu > .) Entering the shell > .) mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 /mnt > (corresponds to /dev/hda2) > .) chroot /mnt > .) lilo > (it complains that it can't find /proc/partions but nevertheless > it's working)
``mount proc -t proc /proc'' beforehead would do. > .) exit > .) umount /mnt > .) reboot -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9
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