Re: Can't boot linux anymore from HD
Thomas Ruedas wrote:
>
> Hello,
> yesterday I suddenly could not boot Linux from the HD anymore. When
> booting, LILO begins the boot process correctly, but after that first
> line "Loading linux..........." is written to the screen, the PC reboots
> immediately. However, it is still possible to boot from diskette (which
> takes an eternity), and LILO also lets me boot into DOS correctly (DOS
> is on my /dev/hda partition). After booting from diskette, I seem to be
> able to work absolutely without problems. Also, I don't remember any
> essential problems during the last sessions or the last shutdowns before
> the problem appeared.
> I'm using Debian Linux 2.0.34 on a P100 PC.
>
When you boot off the diskette, do you see your kernel image under the
/boot directory on your hard drive? If so, maybe you could try just
rerunning lilo to make sure it points to it, assuming your
/etc/lilo.conf is correct.
I actually had a similar problem the same day you did (actually, the
computer hung rather than rebooting, but at the same point). It was
because I had stupidly deinstalled (using dselect) what I thought was
the original kernel package, but was actually my custom kernel that I
had built! The computer crashed after a few hours, when I wasn't even
working with it. When I noticed it had crashed and rebooted, that's
when it hung. Makes sense! :-b (Just had to reinstall my self-built
kernel package, after getting the versioning thing right, so dselect
wouldn't go out and fetch the distribution kernel...) (It's wonderful
how consistently dselect treats the kernel package as just another
package, merrily letting you deinstall it!)
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