Re: LILO problem in Woody
Hi,
You might want to try booting off a boot CD and "rescue" into
your debian system.
When your prompted for:
boot:
type in
rescue root=/dev/hda2 (assuming / is on /dev/hda2)
Then re-run liloconfig.
You probably don't want to install lilo into your MBR, but into
your root partition, this is if you want to keep your PowerQuest
boot manager.
I usually use the Debian lilo installed into the MBR and use Debian's
lilo to run all my other OS's.
hth,
Mike
Quoting David Grant <david.grant@telus.net>:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Woody from a minimal CD, and did a network install from
> stable.
>
> The first part of the install went perfectly, and Debian booted itself
> into LILO with no problem. I selected the partition with Debian on it,
> and then Debian did some more setup, including installing some packages
> using tasksel.
>
> But then when I rebooted my computer, LILO didn't want to run this time.
> It just said: LI. I tried rebooting again, same thing.
>
> I have PowerQuest BootMagic in the MBR (/dev/hda) and that re-directs to
> Windows, Mandrake LILO, or LILO in my Debian / partition on /dev/hda8
>
> Why would it work the first time and then stop working the next time?
> The only thing I can think is that the /boot area of /dev/hda8 got
> messed up somehow, or one of the packages that Debian installed screwed
> around with lilo.conf. If anyone has any idea of the what the problem
> is, please let me know. If you can also give me some basic instructions
> on how to get in there and look at /etc/lilo.conf that would be great too.
>
> If I install lilo to /dev/hda (MBR) will that fix my problems? If LILO
> is in /dev/hda will it be able to re-direct to my Mandrake LILO (in
> /dev/hda6).
>
> Thanks,
> David Grant
> cc: to david.grant@telus.net if possible. thanks
>
>
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