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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers disaster recover w/tar & find Post 31737 by LivinFree on Tuesday 12th of November 2002 08:07:01 PM
Old 11-12-2002
I'm not sure why one takes so much longer than the other, but I've seen that problem on bootup (hangs at LI).
In that case, you boot manager/area is damaged - in this case, LILO.

To restore, I would recommend building a barebones system, then unpacking your backups onto it. Or you could take a disk image... It may be as easy as "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/st0" from a boot disk... Note that it may also be more complicated than that, and the device names would have to be adjusted (I'm assuming you have your entire normal filesystem on one EIDE disk... this is probably not the case).

If you're trying to make the existing backup work, you can unload it to disk, boot off of a disk (CDROM, Floppy, etc) with the root being your newly-restored disk, and execute "/sbin/lilo" to try to repair it...

Hope this helps a little...
 

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