well, if you didn't boot with the correct root filesystem, it won't be able to find the lilo.conf, unless you pass it as an option to lilo.
so check if the correct / is mounted, if its is and /etc/lilo.conf is missing you'll have to rebuild it from scratch. If it's not the correct /, then mount it manually, and do a lilo -f /mntpoint/etc/lilo.conf shaya potter On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 01:01, jennyw wrote: > Thanks, Shaya. I did that and that's when it told me that lilo.conf didn't > exist. At this point I suspected that the absence of lilo.conf might > indicated that the problems with my filesystem were more severe than I > thought so I did a reinstall ... however, is there a way to run without > lilo.conf being present? I mean, create a new one? > > Thanks! > > Jen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shaya Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 9:37 PM > Subject: Re: How do you repair a bad LILO? > > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],yucs.org} http://yucs.org/~spotter/
