On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:26:31PM +0200, Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I did an apt-get -f update on my Corel-Linux 1.1 (which is based on > Debian). Everything seemed to go well, but than apt ended with the > following error messages: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > lilo > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > I than run lilo again resulting in the following error message: > > First boot sector is version 20.0. Expecting version 21.5. > > While my system still runs fine, I assume that I now wouldn't be able > to reboot. As I don't have any idea, what I could do to correct the > problem, I would be very grateful for any help!
Check /boot for an old copy of your boot sector. You'll probably want
to back up what you've got right now. I like to datestamp these:
$ dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/mbr-2000.10.10 bs=512 count=1
You should *always* be able to boot your system with a boot floppy.
There are several flavors of these, including general-purpose rescue
disks (including Tom's Root/Boot and a Debian install floppy), a
kernel-image disk (kernel on disk), and a boot-record only disk, in
which a floppy points to a HD kernel image for booting. I prefer the
latter as it's the most flexible and fastest to boot.
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