On Thursday 16 January 2003 05:33, Anders Johansson wrote:

Assuming you've mounted your system on /mount

cd /mount chroot . (note the dot here, most people miss it. It's chroot<space><dot>) mount -a /sbin/lilo

should work.

The same can be accomplished a bit simpler (see also man lilo): /sbin/lilo -r /mount I'm not saying one way is better than the other. I just happen to like the -r option because it is short and sweat. Laziness is not necessarily a bad thing. ;-) Paul.

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 22:09, zentara wrote:

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:01:24 +0100 Paul Uiterlinden wrote:

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On Thursday 16 January 2003 05:33, Anders Johansson wrote:

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Assuming you've mounted your system on /mount

cd /mount chroot . (note the dot here, most people miss it. It's chroot<space><dot>) mount -a /sbin/lilo

should work.

The same can be accomplished a bit simpler (see also man lilo):

/sbin/lilo -r /mount

I didn't know about that one, nice :)

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I'm not saying one way is better than the other. I just happen to like the -r option because it is short and sweat. Laziness is not necessarily a bad thing. ;-)

There is even another way to do it. :-)

1. boot from the rescue cd 2. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt (or wherever your root is) 3. /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

hm. Will that find the kernel in /mnt/boot if lilo.conf references /boot/vmlinuz? And both methods will still need to mount /boot if it's on a separate partition. -- Anders Johansson

On Thursday 16 January 2003 22:30, Paul Uiterlinden wrote:

On Thursday 16 January 2003 22:20, Anders Johansson wrote:

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There is even another way to do it. :-)

1. boot from the rescue cd 2. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt (or wherever your root is) 3. /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

hm. Will that find the kernel in /mnt/boot if lilo.conf references /boot/vmlinuz?

No, I don't think so. Therefore you need either the -r option of ^^ Dooh! Typo: "or" that is.

the chroot.

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And both methods will still need to mount /boot if it's on a separate partition.

Sure thing! And make sure that you mount the boot partition on /mnt/boot, not on /boot.

Paul.

On Thursday 16 January 2003 22:09, zentara wrote:

There is even another way to do it. :-)

1. boot from the rescue cd 2. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt (or wherever your root is) 3. /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

That's the one I always remember, because it seems straightforward to my way of thinking.

I don't think that will work correctly. If you run lilo that way, it will still install its stuff in /boot, instead of /mnt/boot. The -C option just overrides the use of the default config file, /etc/lilo.conf. You really need the -r option, or do the chroot before invoking lilo. Paul.

On Friday 17 January 2003 02:02, zentara wrote:

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I don't think that will work correctly. If you run lilo that way, it will still install its stuff in /boot, instead of /mnt/boot. The -C option just overrides the use of the default config file, /etc/lilo.conf. You really need the -r option, or do the chroot before invoking lilo.

Well I did forget to add to mount /boot. It's just another way, it works for me; but it's probably not the best solution.

Ah, ok, now I see: you mount your boot partition on /boot, not /mnt/boot. That's why your method works as well. Interesting, so many ways to do something correctly. Paul.