Re: Save me: LILO!

[Aaron Solochek <leko@cmu.edu>]

Brad wrote:

>  <snip>

>
> At worst, download the Debian installation disk image. You don't have to
> reinstall, just choose "Mount an existing root partition", "Activate an
> existing swap partition", and "Make bootable" from the menu and things
> _should_ work.

This is the catch... I've used the debian disk images (1.44) many times to install on
many different machines.   I've downloaded and created these images a few times and
used different methods of cration (rawrite and dd).  They do everything great for me
_except_ alter the MBR.  I think that lilo ususally gets only to the second L after
using them (LIL-)  and crashes.  In the rare occasion that I used a install disk for
this purpose I would mount the partition execute a shell, and type "/target/sbin/lilo
-C /target/etc/lilo.conf"

-Aaron Solochek
 leko@cmu.edu