[ltp] reinstalling LILO (RHL+i1460)

José Antonio Milke G. linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Thu, 07 Dec 2000 20:02:18 GMT


Thanks for your help Darrell; I'll do what you say and see what 
happens...
tony

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 12/7/00, 12:41:29 PM, Darrell Shively <dash@cisco.com> wrote regarding 
Re: [ltp] reinstalling LILO (RHL+i1460):


> "José Antonio Milke G." wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your help Brad, but I tried what you suggested and it didn't
> > work: I used:
> >         /mnt/yourharddisk/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/yourharddisk/etc/lilo.conf

> Hmm... you may need to use the "-r" option (chroot to selected
> directory).  To wit:

>  $ /mnt/yourharddisk/sbin/lilo -r /mnt/yourharddisk

> Once you are using "-r", the "-C" shouldn't be needed.

> > [...]
> > So I edited lilo.conf to take into consideration the new 
"mnt/yourharddisk"
> > as the beginning of the path, ...

> Oh, and you'll probably need to restore your lilo.conf to its original
> form before this will work.

>    good luck,
>       - dash
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