I'm wondring if it was a lilo bug. Last night when I did a dist-upgrade and it installed the latest unstable it updated lilo. To get this system online I booted off a Debian3 CD, copied an old lilo to /, "dpkg --remove lilo", "dpkg --install /lilo*; sync" Came right up. Thus spake Alvin Oga (aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com): > > > On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > One of my machines just went down due to a power outage. When it came > > up it gave something like: > > > > LILO timestamp mismatch > > sounds like your puppy went down hard... > > - go into bios mode.. fix the clock .. > - boot into single user... and run e2fsck on all partitions > > - make a boot floppy .. to boot off of it into your root partition on hd > > - redo lilo/grub .. when "ready" > > c ya > alvin :wq! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Harris | PGP Key ID: E344DA3B @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. Diagnosis: witzelsucht IPv6 = robert@ipv6.rdlg.net http://ipv6.rdlg.net IPv4 = robert@mail.rdlg.net http://www.rdlg.net
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