> On August 9, 2016 at 11:06 PM Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote: > > Quoting Peter Olson (pe...@peabo.com): > > > Of course, it is difficult to shoot yourself in the foot with GRUB ... > > </sarcasm> > > > > I have a machine in that state right now, and rather than try to debug > > it at the Grub prompt, I am just going to reinstall the system. My > > data is all in another partition, so it is really the easiest way to > > proceed. > > Seriously, have you considered just booting a live CD, chrooting to the > system root, looking around to find the filenames of the correct kernel > binary and initrd, installing the lilo deb, constructing a minimal > /etc/lilo.conf, and running '/sbin/lilo -v'? It might be the painless > alternative. > > Something like: > > prompt > boot=/dev/sda > root=/dev/sda1 > map = /boot/map > timeout = 50 > default = linux > vga = normal > > image = /boot/bzImage > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > label = linux > read-only
That would be a cool way to do it, but it's a machine where I work, so I would have to document it and support it (different from all our other machines). Thanks for the advice though. It could be helpful for others. Peter Olson _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
