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Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM



on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:34:28PM -0500, burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com (burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com) wrote:
> IOn Tue, 22 May 2001 burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I booted up today I got the by-now-famous "LI" hanging lilo ... I
> > used my rescue disk to get into my system. When I updated, lilo was one of
> > the packages that was upgraded, so I thought "ah, perhaps that'll fix it."
> >
> > So I tried powering down and booting back up. This time, I got "LI"s
> > repeating themselves all the way down the screen, over and over.
> >
> > Here is my lilo.conf file:
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda3
> > root=/dev/hda3
> > # This file was created automatically by liloconfig
> > # Automatic creation, will do it every time
> > # run dpkg-reconfigure lilo if you want to change the way this operates
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > delay=20
> > map=/boot/map
> > read-only
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17
> >     label=2.2.17
> >
> > Can anyone see anything wrong with this? Where else should I look
> > troubleshoot?
> 
> I should add that I changed the first line to
> 
> boot=/dev/hda1
> 
> as soon as I posted this. But it seems to have changed nothing.

Postfix quoting and trim quotes, please, Glenn.

You have to re-run 'lilo' for changes to take effect.  Have you?

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