Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:06:12 -0500 From: Gerald Combs <gerald@ethereal.com> Subject: Re: Boot Disk Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10107121002420.30278-100000@pow.zing.org>
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Mount your hard drive (mount /dev/hda5 /mnt -t ext2) and then chroot
> /mnt, you should be able to just run /sbin/lilo and restore the loader.
Actually, the chroot isn't needed. From the LILO(8) man page:
-r root-directory
Before doing anything else, do a chroot to the
indicated directory. Used for repairing a setup
from a boot floppy.
It comes in handy when your rescue disk won't chroot. :)
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