Hi
Updated the firmware on a PERC RAID card as it was out of date and causing a monitoring error - Everything went fine but on the reboot the box now tells me it cant find a valid boot device - I am thinking maybe somehow the boot block on the logical disk is shot.
Can anyone advise me on how to rebuild the bootloader on lilo using a rescue CD?
thanks
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 23:35 +0100, Tom Brown wrote:
Hi
Updated the firmware on a PERC RAID card as it was out of date and causing a monitoring error - Everything went fine but on the reboot the box now tells me it cant find a valid boot device - I am thinking maybe somehow the boot block on the logical disk is shot.
Can anyone advise me on how to rebuild the bootloader on lilo using a rescue CD?
I have not used lilo in while, but you should be able to boot the rescue CD and have it mount your partitions in /mnt/sysimage.
After you verify that the /boot and / are mounted there, you should be able to do:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
and then just do this from inside the chroot:
lilo
then exit the chroot and reboot
---- Johnny Hughes
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 05:37 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 23:35 +0100, Tom Brown wrote:
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I have not used lilo in while, but you should be able to boot the rescue CD and have it mount your partitions in /mnt/sysimage.
After you verify that the /boot and / are mounted there, you should be able to do:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
and then just do this from inside the chroot:
lilo
then exit the chroot and reboot
Lilo provides the -r <new root dir> parameter for the chroot part.
Johnny Hughes
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