Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my ongoing quest to put Debian on this Dell Inspiron 8000, I > recompiled the kernel and disabled framebuffer support (so the screen > doesn't go all wacky). I hadn't seen some of the options presented me > by the install menu when i did dpkg -i kernel-image-<myimage>.deb -- i > have a windoze and redhat partition also on this machine that i need > to keep, so i chose the options that seemed to suggest that those > other partitions would be kept bootable. > > now, upon restarting, i can't boot in without a rescue disk! before > lilo even shows up, i get a screen of cascading 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 > 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1s that just go on forever.
Did you run lilo after installing the kernel? If not, run lilo -v2 > > how do i fix my lilo.conf? should i just wipe it out and start over? > i have a feeling it has to do with the options i chose, however ... > > any help would be appreciated. > > thanks! > > > </nori> > > -- > .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu > /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ > // \\ @ maenad.net > /( )\ www.maenad.net > ^`~'^ > get my (*new*) key here: > http://www.maenad.net/geek/gpg/7ede5499.asc > (please *remove* old key 11e031f1!) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Andres Roldan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.fluidsignal.com/~aroldan CSO, Fluidsignal Group -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
