kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 OOPSDid what I thought was a major update on Suse and when I rebooted. It was Suse's boot manager that came up with NO boot to PCLos Yet PCLos Bootmanager gave me the option to boot to both Suse & PCLos :'( Both Boot manager allow me to boot to windowsAny Ideas to help me out of this CRISISColin Quote
teacher Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 Are you telling us you can no longer get to the PC Los boot manager? Are you using Lilo?Can you boot into PC Los at all?Can you tell us where your boot partitions are located?Details, Colin, details!Julia Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 Well here Goes JuliaAs best as i can explainPCLos boot manager does NOT come up at bootPclos Bootmanager was in MBRSuse I don't knowCan NOT boot to PCLos at allColin Quote
teacher Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 Did you have a boot floppy or disk for PC Los?Did you have a backup copy we can replace the current one with?Julia Quote
teacher Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 If not post your lilo and what drive your PC Los / is on and we will go from there.Julia Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 Thanz JuliaNo BackupNO Boot Floppy for PCLosBut DO have the PClos Live cdSeems as if Suse & PClos show different hda's for PCLosSuse's Partitioner showshda7 9.7 G linux Native = PCLOshda9 9.0 G Linux native = SuseHow do I POST my Lilo???Colin Quote
teacher Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 ColinAlways backup your lilo!For starters you can $su$ password# cat /etc/lilo.confThen you can copy your lilo and paste it herel Start with that!Julia Quote
Bruno Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 That is a good one ! Show us your SUSE Lilo like Julia said . . . . . and don´t panic we will get your PCLos Lilo back running :DMan . . Colin what did you do ? . . I am glad you still have SUSE !! Bruno Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 OOPSkamicota@linux:~> suPassword:linux:/home/kamicota # cat /etc/lilo.confcat: /etc/lilo.conf: No such file or directorylinux:/home/kamicota #Colin Quote
Bruno Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 Hi Colin . . In that case show us the fstab: # cat /etc/fstab Bruno Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 linux:/home/kamicota # cat /etc/fstab/dev/hda7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1/dev/hda9 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0/dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0/dev/hda6 /windows/E vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0/dev/hda8 swap swap pri=42 0 0devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0proc /proc proc defaults 0 0usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0/dev/dvdram /media/dvdram auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0linux:/home/kamicota #Thankz Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 Thankzlinux:/home/kamicota # ls /mnt. .. hda9linux:/home/kamicota #Colin Quote
Bruno Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 Okay . . So now we know:PCLos is on hda9SUSE is on hda7 And NOT like you wrote above some posts back that PCLos is on hda7 and SUSE on hda9 !!!Allright step by step: su<password>mount /dev/hda9 /mnt/hda9ls /mnt/hda9 Show me the results . . Bruno Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 OOPS did I DO THAT kamicota@linux:~> suPassword:linux:/home/kamicota # mount /dev/hda9 /mnt/hda9linux:/home/kamicota # ls /mnt/hda9. .rr_moved boot etc home lib opt root swap usr.. bin dev halt initrd mnt proc sbin tmp varlinux:/home/kamicota #Colin Quote
Bruno Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 Good !Next step: # mount -t devfs none /mnt/hda9/dev# mount -t proc none /mnt/hda9/proc Tell me is you get any error messages . . . Bruno Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 Still Double dutch to mekamicota@linux:~> suPassword:linux:/home/kamicota # mount /dev/hda9 /mnt/hda9linux:/home/kamicota # ls /mnt/hda9. .rr_moved boot etc home lib opt root swap usr.. bin dev halt initrd mnt proc sbin tmp varlinux:/home/kamicota # mount -t devfs none /mnt/hda9/devmount: fs type devfs not supported by kernellinux:/home/kamicota # mount -t proc none /mnt/hda9/proclinux:/home/kamicota #Colin Quote
Bruno Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 Colin thry this: # mount -t dev none /mnt/hda9/dev Tell me about the error message ( if any ) Bruno Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 linux:/home/kamicota # mount -t dev none /mnt/hda9/devmount: fs type dev not supported by kernellinux:/home/kamicota #Colin Quote
Bruno Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 We try another one Colin: # mount -t devpts none /mnt/hda9/dev/pts Bruno Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 Didn't even have to press ENTERlinux:/home/kamicota # mount -t devpts none /mnt/hda9/dev/ptsmount: mount point /mnt/hda9/dev/pts does not existlinux:/home/kamicota #Colin Quote
Bruno Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 Aaa . . we are getting close . . # mount -t devpts none /mnt/hda9/dev Bruno Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 Closer to linux:/home/kamicota # mount -t devpts none /mnt/hda9/devlinux:/home/kamicota #Colin Quote
Bruno Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 Brilliant !!Next step: # chroot /mnt/hda9 Show me all !! Bruno Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 OOPS I'm in DENIALlinux:/home/kamicota # chroot /mnt/hda9bash: /dev/null: Permission deniedbash: /dev/null: Permission deniedbash: /dev/null: Permission denied[root@linux /]#Colin Quote
Bruno Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 Never mind the /dev/null . . you are in chroot ! ( the prompt changed )Now: #  /sbin/lilo  -b  /dev/hda Show me ! Bruno Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 Phhhhheeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww[root@linux /]# /sbin/lilo -b /dev/hdaIgnoring entry 'boot'Fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda")[root@linux /]#Colin Quote
kamicota Posted April 10, 2004 Author Posted April 10, 2004 [root@linux /]# /sbin/lilo -b /dev/hdaIgnoring entry 'boot'Fatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda")[root@linux /]# /sbin/liloFatal: raid_setup: stat("/dev/hda")[root@linux /]#Colin Quote
Bruno Posted April 10, 2004 Posted April 10, 2004 Well, we just will have to take the gamble . . Now do: umount /mnt/hda9/procumount /mnt/hda9/devumount /mnt/hda9/ Show me the resultsB) Bruno Quote
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