Repair booting AntiX-23
by business_kid from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6HH46)
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.
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.