boot off the cd like that they told you (or floppy) then login as root
run /sbin/lilo by hand, that should reinstall lilo for you. shaya On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 00:25, jennyw wrote: > I reinstalled Debian 2.2. After installing the base system, it rebooted fine > to finish the rest of the install. I logged in and used it for a bit then > decided to reboot again. This time it hung after showing "LIL-". I asked on > #debian on IRC and folks said this meant I had a bad LILO MBR. Someone > suggested that I try typing "rescue root=/dev/hda1" at the boot: prompt. I > tried this booting off of the install CD and it ended up loading my Debian > install just fine, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem when I reboot. > > I then booted off a boot floppy and tried to run lilo. It said that there > was no lilo.conf file. I did a search on the filesystem for lilo.conf and > there is no file anywhere ... At this point I'm reinstalling (again!), but > I'd like to know how to fix this problem for the future. > > Thanks! > > Jen > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],yucs.org} http://yucs.org/~spotter/
