Repair booting AntiX-23
I installed Antix as a spare OS on my elderly laptop. No backup exists, because I expected to format this, install some despicable OS and give it to some deserving soul who needed it, but was incapable of learning linux. I know a few of those. But that hasn't happened.
To make a long story short, I'm on MBR & lilo here with Slackware. AntiX has sda6, and shares sda1 (/boot) with Slackware. sda1 was hosed, which makes it hard to boot AntiX. I have the AntiX-23_x64.iso here. So I found a likely looking kernel & initrd on the iso, put them in lilo, and tried booting. It halted for the lack of linuxfs :scratch: I can see linuxfs there, but it's 1.6 GB and very big for a ramdisk unless it's for the install procedure. AntiX is installed - I just want my kernel & initrd back. |
post the contents of sda1, and
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sudo parted -l |
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bash-5.2$ sudo parted -l /dev/sda |
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Does Slackware boot? Did you use grub at one time as the bootloader and if so why did you switch to lilo?
Post the contents of /etc/elilo.conf What is in the boot directory on sda6? What is in /etc/fstab on sda6? |
SORTED!
I must confess to misleading the AntiX installer, because I want the main system to have mastery of the boot loader, and each distro thinks they are in charge. Not only that, but each distro don't know about the other ones. So there's mayhem regularly on updates. AntiX wasn't told about the /boot partition, so I had a /boot directory in AntiX's root drive with everything there. So I just copied over to sda1 again, and everything works. Sorry for not getting my brains in gear a little earlier on this. The tricky bit was that lilo.conf is new, because grub got wiped out as well. |
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