grubby: unable to open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 15:06:10 UTC 2008
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:03:50 +0200, Thomas Rabaix wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just update my Fedora 8 with yum, and I don't want to reboot it as I
> get an error during the update. I cannot easily rescue it in
> case of problem as the host is located at a remote location (datacenter).
>
> so the /boot/boot.b is missing, the bootloader is lilo.
LILO is not included in the Fedora repositories.
Fedora uses GRUB for a long time.
> How can I regenerate this file ?
By reinstalling LILO. Manually or as a package.
> Installing: kernel ##################### [ 20/144]
> grubby: unable to open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory
>
> The bootloader is Lilo :
> # dd if=/dev/sda obs=512 count=1 2>/dev/null|grep LILO
> Binary File ... matches
That test is invalid.
$ sudo dd if=/dev/sda obs=512 count=1 2>/dev/null|strings
lbaLILO
ZRrI
D|f1
GRUB
Geom
Hard Disk
Read
Error
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Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux 2.6.25.6-27.fc8
loadavg: 1.37 1.15 1.09
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