Reinstalling Lilo: Difference between revisions

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this covers straight unencrypted installs. just a simple installation with everything installed under / mounted under /dev/sda1. No LVM or additional drives. if you're encrypted or have an otherwise fancy install this wiki expects that you understand the intricacies of your own system. for a more in depth look at how to chroot your installation media (which can be extremely useful for more that just lilo) see here

Chroot method

insert and boot your installation media

login as root when prompted but do not run setup

Mounting

mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt   (where /dev/sdx1 is your / partition)
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys

Chrooting

Once everything is mounted, we can chroot to it:

chroot /mnt /bin/bash

now simply run liloconfig and follow the prompts

Booting your system from the installation media

often times you can boot your system from the installation media as well simply boot the installation media and on the very first page are the following instructions

In a pinch, you can boot your system from here with a command like:
boot: huge.s root=/dev/sda1 rdinit= ro

In the example above, /dev/sda1 is the / Linux partition.

once booted run liloconfig

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-Once upon a time you try to boot Slackware, something happens and lilo is messed up. You can fix lilo really easily, all you need is CD1 of Slackware. Boot the CD and when it says boot: then you type the following:
+this covers straight unencrypted installs. just a simple installation with everything
+installed under / mounted under /dev/sda1. No LVM or additional drives. if you're encrypted
+or have an otherwise fancy install this wiki expects that you understand the intricacies of
+your own system. for a more in depth look at how to chroot your installation
+media (which can be extremely useful for more that just lilo)
+see [https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:slackware_admin:how_to_chroot_from_media here]
-: <code>huge.s root=/dev/hda1 noinitrd ro</code>
+'''Chroot method'''
-Now you change huge.s to the kernel you want to boot, root= should reflect the root partition of your Slackware install. Now when you type this you have Slackware booting up with the bare.i default kernel. Now at the login prompt you login as root and either type:
+insert and boot your installation media
-: <code>liloconfig</code>
+login as root when prompted but do not run setup
-That will setup Lilo from a ncurses based menu. Now you can also edit lilo's config from a file:
+'''Mounting'''
-: <code>vi /etc/lilo.conf</code>
+ ''mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt''   (where /dev/sdx1 is your / partition)
+ ''mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev''
+ ''mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc''
+ ''mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys''
+'''Chrooting'''
-Either way it will fix it hopefully, Now remember man lilo has all the hex errors if you need them. When you have all that setup you now can run:
+Once everything is mounted, we can chroot to it:
+ ''chroot /mnt /bin/bash''
+now simply run ''liloconfig'' and follow the prompts
+'''Booting your system from the installation media'''
+often times you can boot your system from the installation media as well
+simply boot the installation media and on the very first page are the following instructions
+ In a pinch, you can boot your system from here with a command like:
+ boot: huge.s root=/dev/sda1 rdinit= ro
+In the example above, /dev/sda1 is the / Linux partition.
+once booted run ''liloconfig''
-: <code>/sbin/lilo -v</code>
-Now you must run lilo every time you change /etc/lilo.conf to update the changes, Now restart without the CD and it should work.
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Reinstalling Lilo: Difference between revisions

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