[Tfug] Debian unable to mount root fs after an update/upgrade

[Stephen Hooper]

On 1/25/07, Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net> wrote:
> ---- Stephen Hooper wrote:
> >
> > So, now that you know where your primary partition is, and assuming
> > you didn't have it in a weird place where you would need an initrd
> > image, just go into the chrooted directory structure, change the
> > /etc/lilo.conf file to point to the root partition that you found
> > (e.g. "root = /dev/hda1"), and then run lilo, and reboot.
>
> I mounted the disk, chroot to the mounted drive, didn't change my
> lilo.conf as it was already correct, then tried running lilo, but
> it can't find lilo. I thought that lilo was installed in
> /sbin/lilo, but it isn't there. And yes, I looked in
> /mnt/root/sbin/, which of course is /sbin after the chroot.
>
> I do appreciate your help so far, and hope you have an idea what
> to do next.
>

You sure its not in /usr/sbin/lilo?