Re: The new LILO not working?

[bruce@Pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

From: karl@tower.com.au (Karl Ferguson)

Sorry about the slow response, I took myself offline for a few days.
> I had a power failure about an hour ago.  The machine hung at the bootup with
> "LI" so it had to be a problem with lilo.

OK. Please do some additional testing for me so that I can see what
needs to be changed. Keep a copy of the old LILO package and a backup
of your /etc/lilo.conf on your system. Make a boot floppy that you can
use to boot and install the old LILO package. Be sure you are confident
you can do that before going on.  Then upgrade LILO and use the
following procedure:

	# dpkg -i lilo-16-1.deb
	(Reading database ... 20943 files and directories currently installed.)
	Preparing to replace lilo (using lilo-16-1.deb) ...
	Unpacking replacement lilo ...
	Setting up lilo ...
	LILO, the LInux LOader, sets up your system to boot Linux directly
	from your hard disk, without the need for a boot floppy.

	You already have a LILO configuration in the file /etc/lilo.conf
	Install a boot block using your current LILO configuration? [No] n

	Wipe out your old LILO configuration and make a new one? [No] y

	You must do three things to make the Linux system boot from the
	hard disk. Install a partition boot record, install a master boot
	record, and set the partition active. You'll be asked to perform
	each of these tasks. You may skip any or all of them, and perform
	them manually later on.

	Install a partition boot record to boot Linux from /dev/hda1? [No] y
	Added Linux *

	A master boot record is required to run the paritition boot record.
	If you are already using a boot manager, and want to keep it,
	answer "no" to the following question. If you don't know
	what a boot manager is or whether you have one, answer "yes".
	Install a master boot record on /dev/hda? [No] y
	1+0 records in
	1+0 records out

	The master boot record will boot the active partition.
	If you want your system to boot another operating system,
	such as DOS or Windows, by default, answer "no" to the following
	question. You may still use your boot manager or the master
	boot record to boot Linux. If you want the system to boot Linux.
	by default, answer "yes".
	Make /dev/hda1 the active partition? [No] y
	/dev/hda1

Please get back to me if the above doesn't work.

> I wondered why NFS support wasnt in the bootdisk (is it meant to be?)
> otherwise how are we to install over nfs?  Also might be handy to compile
> iso9660 for some CDROMS that have debian on the for a cdrom install
> perhaps.

Those are in modules because the kernel gets too big to boot otherwise.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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