On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300
[email protected] wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----From: [email protected]: Wednesday, October
> 21, 2015 11:18 amSubject: Re: System Dorked -- Help!To:
> >[email protected]> ----- Original Message -----> From:
> [email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:24 am> >Subject:
> System Dorked -- Help!> To: [email protected]> > After being
> warned of impending failure of my oldie but goodie >80gig disk -- I had
> placed my root directory there because the installation's partition was too
> small and did this successfully -- I moved the >root directory to a partition
> on another disk, edited files, ran lilo, seemingly successfully, and voile:
> No boot. Get 99's or nothing at >all.Going into a live Debian 7, I mounted
> the old and new partitions, copied the modified files (which had been done on
> the old version :->>( ) and chroot and tried to re-run lilo. Segmentation
> fault. I had been running an up-to-date Sid so maybe that is the problem. The
> lilo is >on the partition, not on the live distro.> > Fact is, with certain
> combination of cabling, I had the bootloader actually work, load the initrd,
> >and start up, but the new root was not connected so could not proceed. So
> what can I do about this?> > More:I installed to the live distro >lo and
> ran from command line specifying the configuration file and map. This is what
> I get:Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed>device 12 (NFS/RAID mirror down
> ?)> Ok, no segment fault. If I use the -q option, it will display my boot
> choices.So, what's next?> An more::Found <><by Googling that I can bind
> /proc, /dev to chroot and then the installed lilo will run! Same results with
> or without /proc binding.> /dev binding got rid of the original error.Boots
> up with a load of errors but I am now in a machine called "Kali Linux" I
> cannot log on to anything.< <Errors too numerous and fast to see. ACPI, does
> not work on this system anyway. Login service failed to start. Etc.So maybe!!
> almost there. What else need I do get back to where I was? Something else to
> bind?Copy to restore from the original root directory?(Possibly the "user"<
> login from the live distro might work (password?), and I could recreate
> previous users if need be but that does not touch the other errors.)<
Quoting the relevant query: "So what can I do about this?"
Send properly formatted mail, so it is legible ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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