Subject: Re: MBR and Logitech USB mouse.
bryan@ak.net
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 23:23:31 AKDT
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:45:06PM -0800, civileme <civileme@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>
> # mount /dev/hda5 /mnt
> # ls /mnt/etc
>
> # chroot /mnt
>
> Congrats you are back on your disk in /
>
> Now all that is left is the recovery work
>
> # /sbin/lilo
>
> # reboot (or ctrl-alt-del since I am not sure if tomsrtbt has an alias for
> reboot)
Thanks for the great explanation, civileme. Just let me interject
one extra command between /sbin/lilo and ctrl-alt-del:
# umount /dev/hda5
It probably wouldn't make a difference for the exact scenario you
described, but it's a good habit to get into. I saw the same advice
a while back (on this list, maybe), but forgot it the next time I
was in that situation.
We may get spoiled with reboot or shutdown commands, but any time
we're using a filesystem that is mounted read-write, it needs to
be unmounted before rebooting. Otherwise, corruption could occur.
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