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| D M Walking 2005-12-17, 5:47 pm |
| Synaptic had been offering a kernel update for some time for Debian on my
triple boot system. Having done a personal files backup, I decided to try
it ... and accepted the offer for something in the works to re-write the
boot loader (it told me it knew about the other Linux systems) ... but on
re-boot, I couldn't get the other OSs, only Debian. I've had boot problems
on an off over the past few months (I'm a relative newbie coming to grips
with Linux ... well, I *thought* I was coming to grips with it/them). In
the past, booting from the Xandros installation disk and selecting restore
has worked. I made a boot disk for Debian (mkboot), re-booted from it, then
ran the Xandros restore. Now, I can get SuSE and Xandros, but not Debian.
All I get is a sequence of messages as follows:
LILO 22.6.1 Loading Linux ....................
BIOS data check successful
Uncompressing Linux ...
invalid compressed format (err=1)
-- System halted.
I can get into the Debian partitions from Xandros, but of course can't run
GrUB or LILO from there. The Debian 3.1 Bible isn't much help, and my copy
of Practical Linux seems to be a bit out of date when it comes to LILO or
GrUB. I was just getting used to Debian, and that nice update system ... is
there anything I can do short of a re-installation to get Debian booting
again?
I know, there's a manual somewhere, but it takes a while to get my head
round them, if I ever do: Linux documenters aren't the clearest
communicators in the world, nor do developers always keep their
documentation up to date.
I've got SuSE 10 on hda, and Xandros and Debian on hdb. Would it help to
copy the contents of the boot partitions I made on hdb onto the boot
partition of hda? ... if I made sure to keep the release numbers ...
Failing that, anyone got any good pointers to readable sources of info on
LILO/GrUB?
Thanks, gentlepersons, for any help ...
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| Bernhard Kastner 2005-12-17, 5:47 pm |
| D M Walking wrote:
> In
> the past, booting from the Xandros installation disk and selecting restore
> has worked.
Well, that means you have to had a working grub or lilo config somewhere
around.
> I made a boot disk for Debian (mkboot), re-booted from it, then
> ran the Xandros restore. Now, I can get SuSE and Xandros, but not Debian.
Take the working grub or lilo config and simply reinstall it. With grub,
this all works flawlessly with a boot-floppy and the grub install command.
That's what I'm used to do, when I have to reinstall my Windows. Windows
overwrites the mbr, and I have to manually reinstall grub with the
working menu.lst that is still existing on my linux partition.
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| Alan Connor 2005-12-17, 5:47 pm |
| On alt.os.linux.debian, in <do1hrj$mf5$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk>, "D M Walking" wrote:
<body not downloaded>
Alan
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| D M Walking 2005-12-17, 5:47 pm |
| Bernhard Kastner wrote:
> D M Walking wrote:
>
> Well, that means you have to had a working grub or lilo config somewhere
> around.
>
>
> Take the working grub or lilo config and simply reinstall it. With grub,
> this all works flawlessly with a boot-floppy and the grub install command.
>
> That's what I'm used to do, when I have to reinstall my Windows. Windows
> overwrites the mbr, and I have to manually reinstall grub with the
> working menu.lst that is still existing on my linux partition.
Thank you, I'll try it.
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