Re: new lilo installed and boot error

2001-11-28 Thread Eric Smith
According to Donald R. Spoon on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:28:17AM -0600: > See comments in your text copied below. > Thank you for a complete and very informative answer - Well I have not managed to "Fix" the /boot for my 2.4 kernel, i did manage for the previous 2.19 though. I re-installed the k

Re: new lilo installed and boot error

2001-11-28 Thread Donald R. Spoon
See comments in your text copied below. Cheers, -Don Spoon- Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed the new lilo and let debconf create a new > lilo.conf and add a boot sector. Before restarting, > however I added an entry for Windows, then /sbin/lilo -v > which reported nothing a

Re: sid - new lilo installed and boot error - SOLUTION?

2001-11-28 Thread Eric Smith
Could some one please advise whether this is the best / safest way to recover a bootable system? backup the / partition. reinstall a base system - upgrade this to sid - copy back the / omitting /boot (I actually have /boot on another partition). Thanks for an answer. According to Eric Smith on

sid - new lilo installed and boot error

2001-11-27 Thread Eric Smith
I installed the new lilo and let debconf create a new lilo.conf and add a boot sector. Before restarting, however I added an entry for Windows, then /sbin/lilo -v which reported nothing abnormal. However when i tried to reboot, I get: unable to mount root fs add a root= entry (or something to th