kmack Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Just installed mindi and mondo backup software. Instructions are to test the mindi rescue cd. I booted with the cd and get a prompt that is just boot: Tried typing <linux> w/ no brackets of course and no luck. Tried lang=us like Knoppix uses no luck either. I cannot seem to find any instructions in the docs or online concerning how to proceed at the boot: line. Can someone please point me to a man page or instructions on how this works? TIA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 have you tried pressing <tab> to show boot option ? <tab> would normally show boot options under lilo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted September 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Thanks Paul! That didn't work, but got me trying more things. If I type <expert> at the prompt it boots. Pretty cryptic and limited from there, but it does boot! I'd still like to find some instructions or documentation on this as I thought it was going to load via lilo but couldn't find out how. :? EDIT: Just found this in my mindi.log: Cannot run lilo on /tmp/mindilinux/5229/mountpoint.5229Please upgrade/downgrade your version of LILO. It has a bug. Back to my drawing board... :!: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveleh Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Just installed mindi and mondo backup software. Instructions are to test the mindi rescue cd. I booted with the cd and get a prompt that is just boot: Tried typing <linux> w/ no brackets of course and no luck. Tried lang=us like Knoppix uses no luck either. I cannot seem to find any instructions in the docs or online concerning how to proceed at the boot: line. Can someone please point me to a man page or instructions on how this works? TIA! Check out the docs, which can be found as a pdf file at http://www.chem.vu.nl/~stol/Mondo-Rescue-M...Linux-HOWTO.pdf . In Chapter 2 - Quick Start it says: /quote Reboot your system with the created Mindi CD, with the BIOS set to do boot from CD. If the result is a command line in 'Expert' mode, your system checks out. Remove the CD and reboot your system /unquote Hope that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted September 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Daveleh: Thanks for your thought and effort to help! Yes, I have that HOW TO file but it doesn't tell me what to do at the prompt. Since on boot it just says: boot: I am a bit baffled. :roll: I think the problem is that it is booting isolinux instead of going through lilo. My install didn't like the version of lilo I have installed. (see above) Still scratching my head a bit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveleh Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Daveleh: Thanks for your thought and effort to help! Yes, I have that HOW TO file but it doesn't tell me what to do at the prompt. Since on boot it just says: boot: I am a bit baffled. :roll: If I remember correctly from when I first started using Mondrescue that was all I did, created the Mindi disk, rebooted, got the boot: prompt which proved Mindi worked, then removed the CD, rebooted and proceeded to backup my system. Once this was completed I rebooted with my backup CD, typed compare at the boot: prompt and waited for the two systems, my original and the backup, to be checked against each other. The docs tell you that some files won't match but you can check those out in a logfile. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted September 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 OK! Thanks again! That is what I figured, but I didn't like the fact that the mindi CD wasn't booting into lilo. Guess it doesn't like the mdk version or something. I'll try going on with mondo and see how it goes. Blessings to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveleh Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 OK! Thanks again! That is what I figured, but I didn't like the fact that the mindi CD wasn't booting into lilo. Guess it doesn't like the mdk version or something. I'll try going on with mondo and see how it goes. Blessings to you! I don't think it's supposed to, but I may be wrong. I thought it was only supposed to give a command prompt. According to the PDF docs: /quote Mindi Linux creates a set of boot/root floppy disk images that will let you perform basic system maintenance on your Linux distro. The principle virtues of Mindi's boot disks are the fact that they contain your kernel, modules, tools and libraries. /unquote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 boot: is usually the prompt that lilo puts on the screen asking which boot setup you'd like. Try just hitting enter for the default. Glitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted September 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2003 Glitz! You are awesome! I give myself 4 out of 5 for major embarassment while trying to do the obvious. For the record: Merely hitting ENTER does indeed run the default boot setting. :lol: Case closed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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