hi doc
those silly lilo problems could be due to many possible reasons...
try each of the following...
- boot off floppy ( best bet )
- boot into single user than run lilo again
( if it fails..try more of the following experiments
- use a rescue disks and create a bootable floppy...
( on a different pc....w/ cdrom for the debian cdrom
dd if=/mnt/cdrom/path/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024k
and see if the floppy boots
- vi /etc/lilo.conf
...
boot=/dev/hda1 ( assuming you have / here )
...
prompt
timeout = 30
...
# add one or the other of the following option to see if it helps
linear
# lba32
...
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2
label=linux-2.4.2
root=/dev/hda1 ( assuming you have / here )
...
print the /usr/doc/lilo* docs if you can get any of the boxes
up and running... and/or read thru the various LILO howtos
have fun linuxing
alvin
On Sun, 13 May 2001, The Doc wrote:
> I tried
>
> fdisk /mbr
>
> and then reinstalled potato, installing lilo on /dev/hda1, not the MBR.
>
> I still get that shit when I boot.
