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Re: System Dorked -- Help!

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On 21/10/15 14:56, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300
> d_baron@012.net.il wrote:
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>> ----- 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 t
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 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.)<‭‮
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> Quoting the relevant query: "So what can I do about this?"
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> Send properly formatted mail, so it is legible ?
>
well, it was perfectly legible here, suggesting the problem may be at 
your end. ;)


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Tony van der Hoff        | mailto:tony@vanderhoff.org
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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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