Re: debian hangs during boot (at fsck stage)
In article <[🔎] 3BD2A198.10B038E1@tardis.ed.ac.uk> lard@tardis.ed.ac.uk writes:
>Is there some magic way of entering text at the lilo prompt? I've tried typing
>during the brief pause when it says LILO but no text appears and booting just
>continues after the pause.
The default debian lilo configuration does not prompt. Add "prompt"
and possbily timeout to your /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo. See the
lilo.conf man page for details.
Acording to the lilo man page, it should be posibly to get a prompt by
hitting shift at the proper moment. I've never done this.
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