Re: LILO stopped working
> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 15:02:08 -0500
> From: Bruce Jackson <bjackson@pobox.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: LILO stopped working
> I normally leave my computer on all the time. Just the other day I
> rebooted and LILO would not work. It prints LI on the screen and then
> freezes. I have not rebooted my computer in a few weeks and much has
> changed. I am running 2.0.33 with LILO 20-0.1. I have tried running
> LILO off of a floppy and that does not work. The drive is a Quantum
> SCSI disk of 3.2 gb with a 2.0 gb linux partition at the beginning. Any
> one have any ideas?
>
>
Bruce,
This has happened to me a few times, ususally because the kernel has been
touched, either moved or compiled. LILO has in effect a pointer to the sector
where the kernel resides. Doing anything to the kernel will usually result in
it being in a different sector. Time to dig out the emergency disk, mount the
disk partition that is root on / and do LILO again. For what its worth, I
decided a long time ago to direct LILO to put it's stuff on a floppy. I got
into too many scary senario's dickering with the MBR.
Good Luck, Steve
Stephen Millard
Websmith Enterprises Inc.
Harrisburg, Pa.
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