Re: system reboots before booting

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:

> David Fokkema said:
>  
>
> > Just some desperate and incoherent thoughts...
> >        - Are you able to boot from cd or floppy and specify
> >          root=/dev/hda1 in lilo?
> >    
>
> It's already set to that.
>  
You probably want it to be "root=/dev/hda" before you chroot and run lilo.

>  
>
> >        - What _did_ you do between starting up and shutting down your
> >          machine that might (although unlikely) be relevant? Tasks done
> >          as root, ...
> >    
>
> umm, halted the computer? Seriously. The only thing I've done as root in
> the last three weeks is install the Morphon XML and CSS editors (.bin file
> that has an installer downloaded from their site); halt the computer; and
> edit the fstab a few times to get some Joliet CDs working. Yesterday I
> installed the Morphon editor--that's it. In fact /root/.bash_history
> confirms that's all I've done. As sudo I've made a few changes to my
> apache configuration file and restarted the server; deleted some
> Firebird/Mozilla files from /tmp; and that's pretty much it.
>  

I'm wondering if you might not have some physical damage in the boot 
sector of your drive. That's not real likely, but it's a possibility.

--
Kent