YeeHaa ! it worked . Many many thanks - lfe saver. mallum http://10.am http://10.am/search/?search=debian <- lots of Debian news
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:53:28AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > Am Friday 08 December 2000 17:46 schrieb mallum: > > Hello all; > > > > Im running Woody on my desktop box at work. Yesterday I did an apt-get > > update, apt-get upgrade. It was a while since Id done that so quite alot of > > stuff got updated including the kernel. Everything seemed fine. > > > > Later on in the day I had to reboot and I was greeted by a continual; > > > > Lilo loading Linux ..................... > > > > Lilo loading Linux ..................... > > > > Lilo loading Linux ..................... > > > > (over and over again with no Linux Loading) > > > > I tried the rescue option from the original potato install cd and it nearly > > came back up until the screen was filled with an error message complaining > > about loading kernel modules and not being able to write to the disk. > > > > Later on I managed to mount the hardrive via another rescue disk (via > > freshmeat) and tried to rerun lilo but it was confused about paths due to > > /dev/hda1 having to be mounted on /mnt. > > Never seen this before. If you want to run lilo, you have to pass the -r > option i.e. > > # lilo -r /mnt -C configfile > > in order to give it the right path. > > Good luck, > -Cajus > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
