LILO

The LInux boot LOader.

GRUB is superior to LILO in almost every way.

Rescuing on Linux

After doing an apt-get upgrade on Debian 3.1, my OS upgraded my kernel and LILO, but there was a problem. I used knoppix to rescue my system.

I remebered my hard drive was hda, so I did

# fdisk /dev/hda

to see my partition table: hda1 = /boot hda3 = / hda4 = /backup I carefully exited fdisk without making any changes.

# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3

This means my regular root (/) partition is now mounted.

# chroot /mnt/hda3

Essentially this means pretend /mnt/hda3 is my / now while I fix things.

# mount /dev/hda1 /boot
# mount /dev/hda4 /backup

As you can see, I mounted my other partitions as their normal mount points on my disk. Now you can do what you wish, but most likely:

# lilo -v

to rerun lilo in verbose mode. When I did this, I found the /vmlinuz in lilo.conf didn't exist, so I changed the conf to use /boot/bzImage which I verified existed first. In my case, I then did an

# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

as well, but that is a little risky in a chrooted environment, as things like your hostname and domainname are not defined for example.

Once you've rerun lilo without errors, you can umount everything and reboot.