non-booting Debian sid box

[Sean McMahon]

Can't help you but I can say that there are some buggs in lilo which you would
have seen if you'd installed apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges.    Good luck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Howell" <n3byy at adelphia.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 4:16 PM
Subject: non-booting Debian sid box


> I know this is my own fault for running sid perhaps, but I sure could
> use some help. I can't figure out why my box will not boot. Lilo says
> uncompressing image and just hangs there. I tried using the backup
> kernel and no luck there either.
> I grabbed a Knoppix disc and got into the box. I believe if I mount
> the partition /dev/hda1 where the kernel and such lives, I should be
> able to type something like chroot /mnt/hda1 as I have already
> mounted /dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 and if typing chroot and the /mnt/
> hda1, I can get into an environment where I should be able to rerun
> lilo.
> I tried this, but no joy. Has anyone any suggestions as to what I can
> do or if I am doing something wrong with the chroot command? I can
> only attribute this problem of not being able to boot based on the
> fact I recently ran aptget dist-upgrade and then I took the box down
> to pain my office and upon restarting the box, it would not boot.
> Any advice at this point appreciated. I'd rather avoid reinstalling
> everything, but will do so if there's no out. I would gladdly do this
> and stick with Sarge if that's what I have to do. Gee and how well
> things were going...grin
>
> tnx
> Scott
>
>
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