On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:07:34AM -0600, Marcos Lopez wrote:
> Egon Eckert wrote:
> >
> > > syslogd 378 root 5w REG 9,1 8548 192396
> > > /var/log/boot.log
> > > klogd 389 root 2r REG 8,1 191102 12
> > > /boot/System.map-2.2.12-20
> > >
> > > Is it safe to kill these?
> >
> > These are loggers, so I guess nothing terrible would happen. But I
> > wouldn't kill them anyway.. I would fix the problem, not make it worse.
> >
> > > Also i would be quite grateful if someone could explain to me why I must
> > > unmount /boot inorder for the lilo -r /mnt/newroot to work?
> >
> > I don't unmount anything before running lilo.
>
> Okay tired performing that function without doing the umount. I tried
> doing it without coping the files in /boot over to /mnt/newroot/boot but
> it couldn't find /boot/boot.b. So i copied over all the files in /boot
> to /mnt/newroot/boot. Then after running "lilo -r /mnt/newroot" I get
> the following error:
> "Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0900"
>
> What does the above mean and how to i fix it?
>
It's because /mnt/newroot/boot is not mounted on your boot partition, but
is a regular subdirectory on your /mnt/newroot RAID.
umount /boot, mount /mnt/newroot/boot. Then run LILO.
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