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From: Sami Haahtinen <ressu@ressukka.net>
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vaise@votreservice.com wrote:
> On Friday 19 March 2004 14:17, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
>>That would be your lilo, grab the kernel from the partition, put it
>>somewhere, load that kernel image with qemu (with the appropriate
>>parameters, you can get them from lilo conf, it's the append line) and
>>fire away.
>>
> 
> How do you "grab the kernel" ?
> I tried "dd if=/dev/hda", but as I said, lilo crash....

Ok, i found a neater way for you to do that.. ;)

go to: http://www.lnx-bbc.org/download.html fetch the iso image.

boot with the image, log in as root. mount your partition, and chroot to it:
mount /dev/hda1 /tmp
chroot /tmp /bin/sh

If you have other filesystems you are forced to mount, you shouldn't 
really do this unless you have to. If you do this, you need to clean up 
before you go:
mount -a

Re-install lilo by running lilo.

Back out once again:
exit (exit back to lnx-bbc)
umount /tmp
sync (i like to play it safe)

shutdown the system and boot up without the bootable CD-Image.

That's the quick tour on recovering from a HD failure, there are better 
howtos for this, but if you are clever you should be able to do it with 
this.

-- Sami