On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 07:05, Scott Wagner wrote: > Thanks, I'm back in Mandrake. > > I did > > # mkdir /mnt/tmp > > and then > > # mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/tmp > > and then found /etc/lilo.conf at /mnt/tmp/etc/lilo.conf > > Vi was acting a little sickly, but I was able to delete the bad stanza. > > Thanks all, > SW
Generally, after you login under rescue mode, the best thing to do is to mkdir /mnt/hd chroot /mnt/hd cd /etc/ vi lilo (and do whatever) THEN, lilo ...and reboot - should be all happy-dappy after that. -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived like a Prussian gambler -- sweating worse than Bryan on some nights and drunker than Judas on others. It was all a dehumanized nightmare...and these raddled cretins have the gall to complain about my deadlines. -- Hunter Thompson, "Bad Nerves in Fat City", _Generation of Swine_
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