How to rescue arch?

varaahan · 2006-06-29 03:50:06

I could not boot my arch which is in /dev/hdb7 with any boot manager.
Now I want to rescue it using the live cd.
Even if I give "root=/dev/hdb7", it goes into live cd mode and I am unable to recover arch. Instead it goes for reinstall.
Any pointers plz?

mouse256 · 2006-06-29 06:44:46

Just boot from the livecd, you can mount (and eventually chroot ) to your arch partition now for fixing.
But what's the reason for no booting?

Mr Green · 2006-06-29 06:45:07

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Res … oot_loader

maybe this may help....

varaahan · 2006-06-29 08:11:15

thanks! I could recover arch.
But the problem is, I could not boot it from Slackware's lilo
These r the lines in Slack's lilo
" boot=/dev/hdb7
image=/boot/vmlinuz26
label=arch
root=/dev/hdb7
initrd=/boot/initrd26.img
read-only"

Slack's lilo complains "Fatal: Open /boot/vmlinuz26 No such file or directory"

But when i mount /dev/hdb7 I could see the /boot/vmlinuz26 file residing there.

Mr Green · 2006-06-29 09:18:56

I assume arch & slack are on the same drive .....

post output of df ....

if lilo says it cannot find /dev/<foo> then you may not have drive mounted when you ran lilo

varaahan · 2006-06-30 00:11:13

I mounted arch partition in Slackware and edited lilo. Still the problem persists.
The df output from arch is:

[sridhar@myhost ~]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb7 4883556 1038036 3845520 22% /
none 127468 0 127468 0% /dev/shm

Mr Green · 2006-06-30 07:35:19

why have you changed boot line to /dev/hda7 ?

can you post your full lilo.conf

I am having problems with lilo atm after installing new drive lol

varaahan · 2006-06-30 14:10:32

I install the boot loaders in their respective root partition. And I use Slack's lilo to boot it from the mbr of /dev/hda.
While Slack and PCLinux works well, arch and elive do not boot.
By the way which lilo file u want? (slack's or arch's).
I have given below the lilo of Arch which works fine if boot it from osl2000.

"
# /etc/lilo.conf
#

boot=/dev/hdb7
# This line often fixes L40 errors on bootup
# disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80

default=arch
#timeout=50
lba32
prompt

image=/boot/vmlinuz26
label=arch
root=/dev/hdb7
initrd=/boot/initrd26.img
read-only

#other=/dev/hda1
# label=dos

"
As u can see it has /boot/vmlinuz26 ( which can be seen in slcak also when /dev/hdb7 was mounted), but when I run slack's lilo it adds slack,pclinuxos,windows but not arch. It gives an error msg "Fatal: open /boot/vmlinuz26 failed - No such file or directory"

Mr Green · 2006-06-30 14:59:39

I'm confused :?

If you want slack to boot arch then you will have to mount partitions before you run lilo

then when your system boots select Arch & it will (hopefully) boot

I assume you have only one hard drive

Arch Linux

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How to rescue arch?

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