Sorry for the followup to my own post but I need to correct something,
see below
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Jeff Fellows wrote:
>
> > << instead of the Lilo prompt, it gave me LI then froze up... >>
> >
> > This cracks me up.
> >
> > Last weekend I installed RHL 5.0 at a linux users group meeting from a
> > borrowed CD and floppies. Later on after returning the install media, I
> > decided to play around with my install by uninstalling Lilo *with datestamp*
> > /sbin/lilo -u .
> >
> > I intended then to restore Lilo with a downloaded Lilo.RPM file. Before I
> > totally lost the install, meaning I am unable to mount or find anything now,
> > I would boot up and have the system freeze at:
> >
> > Lil-
> >
> > My solution, after hours of booting off the floppy boot.img and getting
> > nowhere, is to wait for the complete official RHL CD I ordered today to
> > arrive, and do a complete reinstall.
>
> You should not need to do that. Try the following:
> boot from the install floppy, at the lilo boot prompt type the
> following: linux single root=/dev/hdx initrd= where x is your
> linux root partition.
It should be linux single root=/dev/hdxx initrd= where xx is the root disk
and partition for Linux. This is from pr 181 and 182 of the Redhat
Installation manual if anyone is interested. BTW it only works for
IDE disks (NO SCSI).
......Tom "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
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