[BLUG] Meeting (Thursday?) and topics

[Clayton Carter]

	If you did have a boot disk, the other handy thing to remember
(which I didn't know about and bugged the SHIT out of me for a while)
is the -r option.  It takes the root directory of the system which
your trying to fix.  ie - When you boot with the diskette and mount
/dev/hd? onto /mnt/yourmomsshorts, you can the do a
`/mnt/yourmomsshorts/sbin/lilo -r /mnt/yourmomsshorts` and lilo will
act as if /mnt/yourmomsshorts is the root directory.

	It took me a while that one out when I needed it.

--pc


On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:08:40AM -0500, Shei, Shing-Shong wrote:
> Forgot to mention an other condition in the following question -- I don't
> have the boot disk (which is very common :-).
> 
> Here is a question for you specialists out there:  I have a working dual-
> boot (RedHat Linux and Win 2000) box using LILO.  It ran out of space on,
> say, Windows and I tried to use Partition Magic to resize partitions.  In
> the way of doing so, the partition that contains /boot must have been shifted.
> Now whenever I try to boot it, it just says
> 
> 	LI
> 
> and hangs.  How can I fix it without reinstallation?
> 
> Bruce
> 
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