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On Thu, 11 May 2006, John Rowe wrote:
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> > > The fix in our case was to download and compile up Lilo as an RPM.
> > > Include this in your install media (NFS share).
> > > Then at the end of the install process, in the post-install script
> > > rpm install lilo, create a good /etc/lilo.conf
> > > and run lilo.
> > >
> > >
> > > You won't find an 'official' Lilo anywhere for the Upstream Vendor's
> > > release. Well worth rolling your own if you come across this problem.
> > > Lilo almost always works.
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> Although it's immensly confusing it's an easy one-off fix and for me
> grub has always worked flawlessly after that. The beauty of yum is that
> it reads the file-system so you only need to install it once.
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> Is yum on the rescue image BTW? I seem to remember having to get it from
> the 'installed' system.
I suspect no, but a really good idea. So will research putting it on.
Note that if you have a "installed" partition you could always "chroot" to
it and run the yum that is overthere.
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> John
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-Connie Sieh
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