[ale] LI (?)

[Eric Z. Ayers]

If you upgraded your kernel at some point and forgot to run lilo, this 
could have caused it.  Sometimes, the first few time you try to boot
everything works fine (the disk sectors used by the old kernel are
still intact), but then as the disk space for your old kernel is
re-used, you eventually cannot boot (because lilo is pointing to what
was a kernel image and now looks more like the digital equivalent  of
scrambled eggs) 

Just my $.02

-Eric.

Robert L. Harris writes:
 > 
 > Ok, "lilo -l" seems to have helped.  
 > 
 > Why would I need to start doing that all of a sudden?  Never had to
 > before...
 > 
 > Robert
 > 
 > Thus spake Mandrake (mandrake at mandrake.net):
 > 
 > > On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 05:00:30PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
 > > > 
 > > > Ok,
 > > >   This morning I rebooted my box to try and get into windows.  Needed to
 > > > do some mpeg capturing.  Everything looked nice and clean, except the
 > > > lilo prompt consisted of "LI"...  
 > > > I booted off my debian rescue disk, double checked my config.  I can mount
 > > > and look at my windows disk.  I booted off a rescue disk, ran scandisk,
 > > > etc and everything looks good.  Re installed lilo, rebooted and still go
 > > > "LI".  Anyone have any thoughts?
 > > > 
 > > 
 > > try changing to linear mode in your config file before you load it.
 > > read the manpage for lilo, that's what I have to do on one or two of my boxes.
 > > 
 > > -- 
 > > (\)       Mandrake (Geoff Harrison)        (/)   http://mandrake.net    (\)
 > > (|) Senior Software Engineer VA Linux Labs (|)    http://valinux.com    (|)
 > > (/) Co-Author Enlightenment Window Manager (\) http://enlightenment.org (/)
 > > (|)    Linux.com Advisory Board Member     (|)     http://linux.com     (|)
 > 
 > 
 > :wq!
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 > 
 > FYI:
 >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
 > 
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