14.2/x86 on Dell Latitude 2100: forgot to run lilo, fix leaves blank screen
by rshepard from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4W98V)
My Dell Latitude 2100 (an Atom CPU netbook) has been running Slackware for years. Today I upgraded patched packages, then the kernel (to version 4.4.202). For the second time in more than 15 years running Slackware my head was elsewhere after modifying /etc/lilo.conf and I rebooted without running /sbin/lilo. (I had made a new initrd.gz.)
A Slackware doc web page had a recovery solution that looked vaguely familiar from that long ago time:
Boot from distribution DVD. After logging in as root enter the following commands:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
chroot /mnt /bin/bash
This did present my root shell prompt so I entered /sbin/lilo and pressed [Enter]. Lilo responsed by adding the ext4 modules and assuming lba so I tried rebooting the system.
After the POST the screen remains blank with the cursor blinking in the upper left corner; no lilo menu presented.
My web searches have not found a thread that shows me what I missed in the recovery process and that's what I need to learn.
TIA,
Rich
A Slackware doc web page had a recovery solution that looked vaguely familiar from that long ago time:
Boot from distribution DVD. After logging in as root enter the following commands:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
chroot /mnt /bin/bash
This did present my root shell prompt so I entered /sbin/lilo and pressed [Enter]. Lilo responsed by adding the ext4 modules and assuming lba so I tried rebooting the system.
After the POST the screen remains blank with the cursor blinking in the upper left corner; no lilo menu presented.
My web searches have not found a thread that shows me what I missed in the recovery process and that's what I need to learn.
TIA,
Rich