Re: [ILUG] whoops

From: John McCormac (jmcc at domain hackwatch.com)
Date: Thu 07 Oct 1999 - 09:40:40 IST


Ken Guest wrote:
>
> ok,
> I did something unbelievably daft last night.
> Compiled a SuSE 5.2 kernel for ip forwarding,
> made a backup copy of the existing one and put
> the new kernel in place.
> And then rebooted.
>
> 2 seconds later I realised 'b*&%*&% I forgot to
> run lilo!'

Use a boot floppy to boot the system. (I think that there is a good
emergency root disk on Slackware 4.0 and probably most of the distros).
After booting, and switching to the emergency floppy, mount the root,
move the kernels. Then reboot again. This time, mount your / partition
from the boot: parameter. Then you may be able to run lilo again.

Regards...jmcc

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