On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 04:13:40AM -0500, Peter Iannarelli wrote: [lilo messed up] > Can someone tell me how I can restore the old lilo/boot or > do I have to do a complete re-install of hamm again ? > > NOTE: I only have the debian rescue floppy to boot from.
Use the rescue floppy. At the syslinux prompt, use linux root=/dev/hda1 (assuming your regular Linux partition is the first partition on the first IDE disk). Your system should come up regularly. Now edit the /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]