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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] lilo and rescue mode
From:       Pixel <pixel () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-09-30 21:10:58
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Tibor Pittich <Tibor.Pittich@phuture.sk> writes:

> On 30. sep 2002  11:52, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> 
> > Le Lundi 30 Septembre 2002 11:30, Tibor Pittich a écrit :
> 
> > > i can't find lilo binary when i booted from 1st cd in rescue mode. grub
> > > is included (wow, gpart too :) ), but lilo don't. it is accident or on
> > > purpose ?
> 
> > Why should it be included ? Mount your / partition from disk, it should be 
> > there. As you need your /etc/lilo.conf file anyway...
> 
> imagine this situation:
> machine without linux; i want have a lilo boot loader rather than other
> bootloaders -> use rescue mode with 1st install cd.. grub is there, but
> lilo don't. it is sufficient logically, or not?

there used to be a reason for excluding lilo from the rescue: the
binary was using boot.b on the *installed* system, not the rescue
system. This caused pb when the version of lilo and boot.b
mistmatched. This is fixed in latest lilo which works as expected when
using "lilo -r ...". So lilo may re-appear on the rescue (though
anyway, if you don't have a good lilo.conf, things are bad for you ;
and having a good lilo.conf often implies having lilo installed...)


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