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On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 October 2015 09:56:18 Renaud  OLGIATI wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300
> >
> > d_baron@012.net.il wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----From: d_baron@012.net.ilDate: Wednesday,
> > > October 21, 2015 11:18 amSubject: Re: System Dorked -- Help!To:
> > > >debian-user@lists.debian.org> ----- Original Message -----> From:
> > > d_baron@012.net.il> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:24 am>
> > > >Subject: System Dorked -- Help!> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > > > After being warned of impending failure of my oldie but goodie
> > > >80gig disk -- I had placed my root directory there because the
> > > installation's partition was too small and did this successfully --
> > > I moved the >root directory to a partition on another disk, edited
> > > files, ran lilo, seemingly successfully, and voile: No boot. Get
> > > 99's or nothing at >all.Going into a live Debian 7, I mounted the
> > > old and new partitions, copied the modified files (which had been
> > > done on the old version :->>( ) and chroot and tried to re-run lilo.
> > > Segmentation fault. I had been running an up-to-date Sid so maybe
> > > that is the problem. The lilo is >on the partition, not on the live
> > > distro.> > Fact is, with certain combination of cabling, I had the
> > > bootloader actually work, load the initrd, >and start up, but the
> > > new root was not connected so could not proceed. So what can I do
> > > about this?> > ‭‮More:I installed to the live distro >lo and ran
> > > from command line specifying the configuration file and map. This is
> > > what I get:Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed>device 12
> > > (NFS/RAID mirror down ?)> Ok, no segment fault. If I use the -q
> > > option, it will display my boot choices.So, what's next?> ‭‮An
> > > more::Found <><by Googling that I can bind /proc, /dev to chroot and
> > > then the installed lilo will run! Same results with or without /proc
> > > binding.> /dev binding got rid of the original error.Boots up with a
> > > load of errors but I am now in a machine called "Kali Linux" I
> > > cannot log on to anything.< <Errors too numerous and fast to see.
> > > ACPI, does not work on this system anyway. Login service failed to
> > > start. Etc.So maybe!! almost there. What else need I do get back to
> > > where I was? Something else to bind?Copy to restore from the
> > > original root directory?(Possibly the "user"< login from the live
> > > distro might work (password?), and I could recreate previous users
> > > if need be but that does not touch the other errors.)<‭‮
> >
> > Quoting the relevant query: "So what can I do about this?"
> >
> > Send properly formatted mail, so it is legible ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ron.
> 
> +1, this stuff isn't readable.

For the record, the HTML is somewhat more readable than the 
plain text.  
What might be the problem there?

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Yeah, that might be the problem. :)

> 
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System Dorked -- Help! d_baron@012.net.il - 2015-10-21 09:30 +0200
  Re: System Dorked -- Help! d_baron@012.net.il - 2015-10-21 10:20 +0200
    Re: System Dorked -- Help! d_baron@012.net.il - 2015-10-21 15:40 +0200
      Re: System Dorked -- Help! Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2015-10-21 16:00 +0200
        Re: System Dorked -- Help! Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-10-21 16:20 +0200
          Re: System Dorked -- Help! Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2015-10-21 16:40 +0200
            Re: System Dorked -- Help! Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-10-21 17:00 +0200
              Thread dorked. Was: Re: System Dorked -- Help! "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-10-21 17:30 +0200
                Re: Thread dorked. Was: Re: System Dorked -- Help! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-21 20:30 +0200
              Re: Thread dorked. (was: Re: System Dorked -- Help!) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-10-21 18:50 +0200
                Re: Thread dorked. (was: Re: System Dorked -- Help!) d_baron@012.net.il - 2015-10-21 19:50 +0200
                Thread dorked. Was: Re: System Dorked -- Help! "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-10-21 21:20 +0200
                Re: Thread dorked. (was: Re: System Dorked -- Help!) Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-23 00:30 +0200
        Re: System Dorked -- Help! Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2015-10-21 16:20 +0200
          Re: System Dorked -- Help! Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-10-21 16:40 +0200
      Re: System Dorked -- Help! d_baron@012.net.il - 2015-10-21 19:50 +0200
        Re: System Dorked -- Help! Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-10-21 20:40 +0200
        Re: System Dorked -- Help! "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-10-21 21:40 +0200
          Re: System Dorked -- Help! d_baron@012.net.il - 2015-10-21 21:50 +0200
            Re: System Dorked -- Help! "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-10-21 23:00 +0200
              Re: System Dorked -- Help! d_baron@012.net.il - 2015-10-22 10:20 +0200
                Re: System Dorked -- Help! "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-10-22 11:30 +0200
                Re: System Dorked -- Help! "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-10-23 14:00 +0200
      Re: System Dorked -- Help! Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 01:40 +0200
        Re: System Dorked -- Help! d_baron@012.net.il - 2015-10-22 10:40 +0200

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