Re: LILO stopped working

1998-01-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 05:17:28PM +1300, Tim Thomson wrote: > like the system map for the old kernel, and what the system map actually > does. What do the files in the /boot dir do? The only file touched since > installing is /boot/map which (I guess) LILO had done, after I > reconfigured it. Don

Re: LILO stopped working

1998-01-11 Thread Tim Thomson
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oh dear, a second person that thinks I'm an expert :-) Heehee! > You should copy your 2.0.32 map file to the boot directory I think. > Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I guess these would have been in the same directory as the kernel, which will be

Re: LILO stopped working

1998-01-11 Thread bhmit1
Oh dear, a second person that thinks I'm an expert :-) On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot > > loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused b

Re: LILO stopped working

1998-01-11 Thread Tim Thomson
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot > loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a > geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map > installer. Ummm..

Re: LILO stopped working

1998-01-10 Thread bhmit1
Quick lesson in LILO from /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz: LILO start message - - - - - - - - - When LILO loads itself, it displays the word "LILO". Each letter is printed before or after performing some specific action. If LILO fails at some point, the letters printed so far can be used to identif

Re: LILO stopped working

1998-01-10 Thread Steve Millard
> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 15:02:08 -0500 > From: Bruce Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: LILO stopped working > I normally leave my computer on all the time. Just the other day I > rebooted and

Re: LILO stopped working

1998-01-09 Thread dg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: > I normally leave my computer on all the time. Just the other day I > rebooted and LILO would not work. It prints LI on the screen and then > freezes. I have not rebooted my computer in a few weeks and much has > chan

LILO stopped working

1998-01-09 Thread Bruce Jackson
I normally leave my computer on all the time. Just the other day I rebooted and LILO would not work. It prints LI on the screen and then freezes. I have not rebooted my computer in a few weeks and much has changed. I am running 2.0.33 with LILO 20-0.1. I have tried running LILO off of a floppy