Re: LILO

From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 02/29/04

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    On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 10:10:29PM -0500, MacNean Tyrrell wrote:

    >my lilo seems to be screwed up, it
    >boots and I get some OS/2 thing, I even tried reinstalling debian from
    >
    >
    net,

    >it ejects the disk and reboots and same thing. What do I do?
    >

    MacNean Tyrrell wrote:

    >I don't think I made a rescue disk. Am I totally screwed?
    >
    >

    No. Boot up off your installer CD, go through the installation as far as
    mounting / and /usr, but DO NOT partition/initialize (skip those steps).
    Then shell out via Alt-F2. Run "chroot /target". Now you can edit
    /etc/lilo.conf to fix whatever problems it has, then run "lilo". "exit",
    Alt-F1 back to the installer, choose "Reboot system" and remove the
    installer CD. Hopefully you're now fixed. If not, provide more info
    (error messages, etc) (and please, don't top post). 

    -- 
Kent
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