Hello, Thanks for your reply. It is what I have. I have to mention that I updgrade from a FC4 to F8. More over I have a file called 'boot.0800', can it be the boot.b file (backup) ? # dd if=/dev/sda obs=512 count=1 2>/dev/null|strings LILO 7H9| LILOu)^h `UUfP fPYX @](: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux 2.6.25.6-27.fc8 > loadavg: 1.37 1.15 1.09 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Thomas Rabaix -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
