[CentOS] 3.x box - lilo - hosed bootloader

[William L. Maltby]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 05:37 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 23:35 +0100, Tom Brown wrote:
> > <snip>

> 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.

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> Johnny Hughes
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Bill