[H-GEN] Arrrrghh!

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Daehenoc wrote:

> Umm - I can get to the hdd by booting off the cdrom - and instead of
> specifying where the root partition is, I can mount the root fs on /mnt
> after booting off the cdrom. How do I re-run lilo after editing the
> lilo.conf file to reflect the changes?

lilo -r /mnt

This will chroot to /mnt and run lilo from there.  Automagically fixed :)

Carefully check /etc/fstab to make sure everything refers to the right
partition.
 
> > So do a fsck -b 8193, then fsck -b 16385,etc until u get one that works or
> > you run out of superblock copies.
> 
> Cool - I think that the superblock is fine, however...

Yeah, should be, but I like to throw in the above info as it can save a 
lot of heart^H^H^H^H^Hheadache if it does turn out the superblock is
fubar.

Cheers,
	-Robert

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