[ale] LILO help!

[Dunlap, Randy]

FYI, Tom's root/boot disk info is at: http://www.toms.net/~toehser/rb/ .


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jkinney [mailto:jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 1998 1:28 PM
> To: ateja at acm.org
> Cc: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: Re: [ale] LILO help!
> 
> 
> 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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> > 
> > you may still email to:
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> > 
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> 
> Jim Kinney M.S.				
> jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
> Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
> Department of Physics			Emory University
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