On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 06:33:38PM -0600, Gezim H wrote: > Hi, > I just finished following a tutorial to kompile a 2.4.20 kernel in debian, > and it asked me to make a boot disk, so I did, it also asked me something > about lilo, I said no. Now when I reboot lilo comes up, when I choose After you install new kernel, you have to rerun lilo. > debian not much happens (even though the busy light is flashing), just a > black screen. I tried putting in the floppy I created, it says: > invalid compressed format (err=) > Can anyone help me recover it? If you have installation CD or floppy, you should be able boot from that. If not, you could maybe download tomsrtbt from http://www.toms.net/rb/ and create floppy to boot from; the tomsrtbt FAQ has instructions on how to run program like lilo using chroot. Or follow instructions at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-dead-lilo -- Jerome
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