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Re: kernel install wiped out lilo!



Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> writes:

> In my ongoing quest to put Debian on this Dell Inspiron 8000, I
> recompiled the kernel and disabled framebuffer support (so the screen
> doesn't go all wacky).  I hadn't seen some of the options presented me
> by the install menu when i did dpkg -i kernel-image-<myimage>.deb -- i
> have a windoze and redhat partition also on this machine that i need
> to keep, so i chose the options that seemed to suggest that those
> other partitions would be kept bootable.
>
> now, upon restarting, i can't boot in without a rescue disk!  before
> lilo even shows up, i get a screen of cascading 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
> 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1s that just go on forever.

Did you run lilo after installing the kernel?
If not, run lilo -v2

>
> how do i fix my lilo.conf?  should i just wipe it out and start over?
> i have a feeling it has to do with the options i chose, however ...
>
> any help would be appreciated.
>
> thanks!
>
>
> </nori>
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