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