Re: SOLVED: (Post Upgrade?) Boot Disaster revisited
I apologize for the bandwidth. The last time we met, I was unable to boot my machine, which suffered a horrid clattering/clacking sound after displaying LILLinux02 and freezing.
At last I have solved this problem. Perhaps this information will be of interest.
The problem was due to my having, after compiling my own kernels, installed the vmlinuz link in /boot . Not in / . When I upgraded, I suppose I didn't pay enough attention---perhaps due to the large amount of information accompanying that recent sid upgrade. Lilo installed its own /etc/lilo.conf. There was no longer any link "/vmlinuz" to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19 or whatever.
Once I booted the system from a rescue disk as Osamu Aoki mentioned to another user. edited /etc/lilo.conf, and ran lilo, the machine boots fine.
Alan Davis.
On Tue, 1 May 2001 23:58:42 +1000
Alan <adavis@saipan.com> wrote:
> My drive is ok, but the MBR has been hosed. Lilo now displays this message
>
> LILLinux02
>
> Once in a few boot attempts, this doesn't actually lead to a clattering sound. At these times, a peach colored screen appears with a neatly formatted
> table listinG all the kernels in my lilo.conf.
>
> Nothing happens.
>
> I have installed linux on another partition on the same drive.
> The drive is behaving fine.
>
> In hda1 is a BUNCH of these files:
>
> errsXXXX(etc)
>
> They all look to be empty.
>
> This is too bizaare to have happened only to me. Has anyone
> ever seen such a thing?
>
> Alan Davis
> adavis@saipan.com
>
>
>
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