Re: Help ! Dead Woody after upgrade
YeeHaa ! it worked . Many many thanks - lfe saver.
mallum
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:53:28AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote:
> Am Friday 08 December 2000 17:46 schrieb mallum:
> > Hello all;
> >
> > Im running Woody on my desktop box at work. Yesterday I did an apt-get
> > update, apt-get upgrade. It was a while since Id done that so quite alot of
> > stuff got updated including the kernel. Everything seemed fine.
> >
> > Later on in the day I had to reboot and I was greeted by a continual;
> >
> > Lilo loading Linux .....................
> >
> > Lilo loading Linux .....................
> >
> > Lilo loading Linux .....................
> >
> > (over and over again with no Linux Loading)
> >
> > I tried the rescue option from the original potato install cd and it nearly
> > came back up until the screen was filled with an error message complaining
> > about loading kernel modules and not being able to write to the disk.
> >
> > Later on I managed to mount the hardrive via another rescue disk (via
> > freshmeat) and tried to rerun lilo but it was confused about paths due to
> > /dev/hda1 having to be mounted on /mnt.
>
> Never seen this before. If you want to run lilo, you have to pass the -r
> option i.e.
>
> # lilo -r /mnt -C configfile
>
> in order to give it the right path.
>
> Good luck,
> -Cajus
>
>
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