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lilo does not work



Jason
i did the following steps
apt-gert remove lilo
apt-get install lilo
it wanted to confiure so it sayd
keep old?
no
ok what do you boot from
sda1
ok
no does not work,
 ok no wonder
mbr on sda?
yess ok
so it booted up to
"
mbr

LI
"
and here it stopped...wrong patition or what?
i said boot from sda1 and set sda1 active...
markus

> You could try "apt-get remove lilo; dpkg --purge lilo; apt-get install
lilo".
> That would remove it, clear out all the config files, and reinstall it
from
> scratch.
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:04:02AM +0200, Markus Hansen scribbled...
> > Jason
> >
> > > And no lilo errors when you ran it?
> > > Strange...
> > > After booting from your floppy, maybe upgrading lilo (or
reconfiguring it) will
> > > make it start working again. That's mostly a guess though.
> >
> > how upgrading lilo or configuring? i dont know...beginner at linux
> >
> >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:51:51PM +0200, Markus Hansen
scribbled...
> > > > Jason
> > > > strange, but i did.
> > > > markus
> > > >
> > > > > Did your rerun lilo after editing lilo.conf? Even if the
kernel you just
> > > > > compiled is corrupted or has a driver problem, lilo should
still come up. You'd
> > > > > just see a kernel panic or other error when booting that
kernel.
> > > > > When I see something like what you saw it's because I forgot
to rerun lilo.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:00:04PM +0200, Markus Hansen
scribbled...
> > > > > > hi guys
> > > > > > i tried to install a 2.2.19 kernel inseead of a 2.2.17.
> > > > > > after booting it sayed
> > > > > > LI
> > > > > > LI
> > > > > > LI
> > > > > > etc.
> > > > > > i dont know, somehow i must have killed my lilo or at least
parts of it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > do you know how to fix it?
> > > > > > can it be that i am using a wrong scsi driver in the new
kernel?
> > > > > > i am booting now with 3.5" disk the 2.2.17 kernel which
takes hours.
> > > > > > thank you for helping.
> > > > > > markus
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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