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295203 2004-11-27 09:14:00 thanks:)
im gonna leave yoper on those partion because im sure theres gotta be a way to fix it, i have tried 2 file systems reiser4 and ext3 and at the moment it is ext3, if that helps, oh and also that SWAP i formated it as linux-swap was that the way to go?
cheers
Prescott (11)
295204 2004-11-27 09:20:00 > oh and also that SWAP i formated
> it as linux-swap was that the way to go?
> cheers

Yes.

I've just seen Chill's post in another thread for you to email him for Knoppix 3.6. That's a later version than I have, so you may as well run with it.
Murray P (44)
295205 2004-11-27 09:36:00 Need to get Chill to clarify his instructions, I had a go myself at it and couldn't chroot to the hda like you normally would, ended up going around in circles :D. Not sure if this is a Yoper disc related thing being that it isn't really set up as a rescue disk.

What file system did you format it with? If you used reiser4, I'm not sure whether Knoppix 3.6 recognises this, I know Knoppix 3.4 doesn't which will limit your options.
Jen C (20)
295206 2004-11-27 09:47:00 ext3. Murray P (44)
295207 2004-11-27 10:08:00 > ext3.

ah ok.

Hmm .. just had another go at this, and this should work for you (slightly modifying Chill's instructions):

Boot with the Yoper disc, and at the root@(none):/yos/ram$ prompt enter in:
cd mnt

Then enter in:
mkdir yoper

If you entering in 'ls' you will see a directory called yoper listed.

Next lot of commands:
mount /dev/hda2 yoper
[the prompt should look like this: root@(none):/yos/ram/mnt$]

chroot yoper
[prompt changes to: root@(none):/$]

/sbin/lilo
[this will reinstall lilo and you will see info such as "Added YOS" and *hopefully* "Added Windows" (or whatever it calls it). If not, you might be back to a single booting Linux machine again temporarily ...]
Jen C (20)
295208 2004-11-27 10:16:00 Guru Murray P (44)
295209 2004-11-27 14:40:00 If you chose Reiser4 as a root partition, you'll needa grab the likes of:
www.lxnay.scarlet.nl

lxnay's Gentoo LiveCD based on kernel-2.6.8-nitro5 IIRC

Otherwise if you're using Ext3, then any LiveCD Distro will suffice.


Check out namesys.com and see why I recommend Reiser4.

Its basically a high-speed "unbreakable" file-system :-)

I think Jen has sufficiently clarified.

Seems odd about your boot-loader though :-/
Chilling_Silence (9)
295210 2004-11-27 20:34:00 i just had a little look at the qtparted program again and saw that my windows partion was set to active, is my linux partion meant to be set to active as well?/ becuase it isnt at the moment, if i set it to active i hope i wont loose my xp os.
cheers :)
Prescott (11)
295211 2004-11-30 04:17:00 Hi Prescott

I see from another thread, that you are still stuck? You never replied whether you actually managed to chroot to your / and reinstall Lilo and what the outcome of that was?

Exactly what stage are you at now?
Jen C (20)
295212 2004-11-30 05:05:00 whoops my bad,
im sure its a setting somewhere, maybe in the partioning part, but yeah those commands that you gave me never worked, the first 2 did but when i get to mount /dev/hda2 yoper i got an message saying something,( i cant seem to find my sheet that i wrote on the error message so ill try it again), the strange thing was that when i first installed it it worked my my os was not going and now that my os is going linux isnt, what can i do, im just gonna retry those commands and get that error message
cheers
Prescott (11)
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