Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3442 mails)

[Geoff <capsthorne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:32:00 +0000
David <dg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> >When you have edited the file, then as root re-run lilo </sbin/lilo>
> >
> That gives me 
> Fatal: open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory
> 
> /boot is there, but there are no files listed in it.
> 

Before we get all apocalyptic :

(1) Go back to fstab please.  Just as /dev/hdb9 is now shown mounted on / , what
do you see mounted on /boot?  

(2) Go back to <fdisk -l /dev/hdb> can you see a smallish partition shown as a
linux partition?

The reason for these questions is that /boot is normally a separate small
partition.  If it is still there then we need to mount it on /boot in the same
way that you mounted /dev/hdb9 on /.  If all goes well lilo should reinstall
without an error.

<snip>

> Don't worry about that - didn't realise you were married to Royalty - respect.

I didn't realise it myself until we were a few years in ... its definitely true
though .. there is no other possible explanation for a variety of traits.

> I suppose you get a bit of "how much longer are you going to be on that
> ******* machine" :)

We are long past that ... pained resignation and/or "**I** am setting off for
the sales in 5 minutes <pained look>"  have been the order of the day for many
years now.

Regards,

Geoff

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