Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd: 1) Boot from the Woody CD. 2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as / 3) Execute a shell 4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right places in /boot. 5) Exit the shell. 6) Run "make system bootable." which would Lilo it up.
Today I horked my Sarge Grub install, booted from the Sarge CD, screwed up my paritions when I tried to do (2) (because creating, formatting, and mounting partitions is all connected), verified 4) was correct, couldn't figure out how to do 6), and running "upgrade-grub" from within a chroot didn't work. When I entered "partition my disks," formatting my swap part was already highlighed. I picked my big Debian ReiserFS part and told it not to format it, but to mount it as /, and clicked Finish. D-I told me it was going to make changes to my partition table, even though I didn't tell it to change any partitions. Somehow when it was done my swap part was gone. In Sarge D-I, how can I just mount something as / without changing part tables or formatting anything, and run the "make system bootable" step to recover from botched grub? Or how can I do it from within a chroot. I don't usually keep a second install of Debian around to chroot from, so I'd have to chroot from the Sarge emergency shell or (less desirably) a Knoppix CD. For now I just reinstalled the OS. It takes me 30 minutes with scripts. But I looked like a tool having to do that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
