Re: Problem Booting After Install

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Scott MacMaster wrote:

> > If you use the boot floppy and go into the selection process, try
> > pressing Alt-F2 and see if you get to a login prompt. If so, login, and
> > give us the results of:
> >
> > df -h
> >    
>
> FileSystem     Size     Used     Avail    Use%     on
> /dev/hdb1      14G      73M      13G      1%
>
>
>  
>
> > Also, at this point, you should be able to run "nano /etc/lilo.conf" to
> > edit the lilo.conf file.
> >    
>
> I was able to view the contents of lilo.conf.  Here are the contents (minus
> the comments).
>
> lba32
> boot=/dev/hdb1
> root=/dev/hdb1
> install=/boot/boot-menu.b
> map=/boot/map
> delay=20
> vga=normal
> default=Linux
> image=/vmlinuz
>       label=Linux
>       read-only
> image=/vmlinuz.old
>       label=LinuxOLD
>       read-only
>       optional
>
> Any thoughts on how to get this to work?
>
>  

OK, that looks good. I don't have the history of this thread in front of 
me, but if I remember correctly, when you try booting off the hard drive 
without the rescue floppy, you get a bunch of numbers across the screen.

In that case, it looks like you may just need to rerun lilo to reinstall 
is in your mbr. Just run "lilo" and you should see a message like "Added 
Linux*". Then reboot ("shutdown -r now") and hopefully all will be well.

--
Kent