[ale] LILO help!

[jkinney]

Ooops! When you see the "LI     "prompt try hitting the "Tab" key to get
the list of boot choices. If that is a no-go, use the boot disk and the
rescue disk you made when you installed the system. (You did make a rescue
disk, didn't you?) If not find a copy of Toms root/boot disk and use it.
Mount your hard drive and edit your /etc/lilo.conf to point to the correct
kernel. at that point run /hard_drive_mount_point/sbin/lilo to (hopefully)
reset the system map. reboot and don't do it again ;) 

On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Adam Teja wrote:

> Help! I did something stupid!
> 
> I blasted my Linux kernel (accidentally) while trying to recompile it.
> So I decided to just reinstall... 
> 
> Now my machine won't boot; it gets to the point in the
> boot up (LILO)
> 
> LI  ... then just trails off into LockUpVille
> 
> I tried to (DOS)"fdisk /mbr" the hard drive, but to no avail
> 
> Is there anything I can do to reinitialize the drive.
> I was told to (DOS)fdisk the entire partition to DOS and let  the
> RedHat install redo it's magic... this seems stupid, isn't there a way
> I can do this w/o reverting to another OS?
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Jim Kinney M.S.				jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
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Department of Physics			Emory University