On Mon, 27 May 2002 16:27:29 Amit Karnik wrote:
Hi Can u please elaborate on how do i edit my lilo.conf file.......bcos when i tried booting iot thro Linux CDROM and enter in Linux rescue mode i am not bale to see the lilo.conf file in /etc.So please tell me how do i do the same
When you enter rescue mode, none of your partitions is mounted. Nor are there any disk devices configured. Depending on your version and distro, the rescue mode might try to detect a Linux partition and mount it. You'll be told if that happens.
Assuming that it doesn't, you'll have to make a device for your hard disk [eg. 1 IDE HDD with root as the 1st partition]:
# mknod /dev/hda
Create a dir to mount your root partition
# mkdir /myroot
Mount the root partition on to the new dir
# mount -t ext[2|3] /dev/hda1 /myroot
Now you have to map the root to the new dir you created so do:
# chroot /myroot
edit /myroot/etc/lilo.conf and run /myroot/sbin/lilo afterwards.
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