boot folder deleted

[btaber]

unfortunately, the boot folder on my server got deleted. I am running RedHat 7.3, and it has lilo for the loader. I do not have physical access to the machine, only via ssh shell. I fortunately have a 7.3 box at the office. I copied the boot folder from my server locally to my remote one, then ran lilo -v. If the server does happen to reboot, will what I have done work? Will the server boot again without a pannic? any input would be appreciated.

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[ericbrunson]

If lilo ran and you copied the same version of the kernel the matches the /lib/modules on the machine you should be okay. Good job.

 

[btaber]

Thank you for the info. In theory it should work... time will tell...

 

[ericbrunson]

Unfortunately, there's no real test other than a rebool. :-(

 

[franklin97355]

Question is, who had rights to delete that folder and why did they do it?

 

[marsd]

Stuff happens. We all do it.
Wrong decision in administrative privilege or
a fat fingered command..who cares. As long as it
has a happy ending, and most of the time with linux
it will.

 

[ericbrunson]

Yep...

Being too fast on the enter key led me to botch the command:

cd / ; rm -rf temp*

and I typed

cd / ; rm -rf temp *

Took me about 5 seconds of staring at the screen like a monkey doing a math problem to figure out why it was telling me:

rm: cannot remove `temp': No such file or directory

but I could still hear the hard drive grinding way.

By that time the damage was done.

 

[franklin97355]

Logged on as root?

 

[ericbrunson]

Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to remove the directories.