Tom <tb.31020.nospam@comcast.net> writes: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 01:38:56PM -0500, BruceG wrote: > [cut] >> > Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: >> > > but when I wanted to boot I saw the letters LI, and after that the >> system hangs. >> >> I had the same problem after my upgrade. If you made a boot floppy during >> your initial installation, or after upgrading - you should be able to boot >> of your floppy. I put my boot floppy in the floppy drive, booted up, after >> the kernel loaded, I was where I usually am with a good running system. At >> that point, I ran Lilo and was a happy camper. I don't know if Knoppix will >> do that for you or not, I didn't try with Knoppix - just the floppy. > > Yeah, WTF causes that? I get that at seemingly random times, and I > haven't been able to diagnose it. I can fix it by booting off the Woody > CD and choosing "Mount Existing Partition" and "Make System Bootable", > and it adds entries for my custom kernel, but it doesn't use my > customized lilo.conf. I have to *rerun* lilo after I boot it, and boot > again. > > Is that "to be expected" when apt does something like update lilo or > something else? Should I make a habit of rerunning lilo when in doubt, > after I apt-get upgrade? LILO smartly detect whether it's _necessary_ to run and will warn the user to do that. By 'necessary' I mean "the system will not boot again if you don't do that". However, it is recommended to run whenever you install a new version. > > Thanks > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Andres Roldan Fluidsignal Group <aroldan@fluidsignal.com> The Debian Project <aroldan@debian.org> GPG Key-ID: 0xB29396EB Home Page http://people.fluidsignal.com/~aroldan
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