Re: LILO

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 10:10:29PM -0500, MacNean Tyrrell wrote:

> my lilo seems to be screwed up, it
> boots and I get some OS/2 thing, I even tried reinstalling debian from
>  
net,

> it ejects the disk and reboots and same thing.  What do I do?

MacNean Tyrrell wrote:

> I don't think I made a rescue disk.  Am I totally screwed?
>  

No. Boot up off your installer CD, go through the installation as far as 
mounting / and /usr, but DO NOT partition/initialize (skip those steps). 
Then shell out via Alt-F2. Run "chroot /target". Now you can edit 
/etc/lilo.conf to fix whatever problems it has, then run "lilo". "exit", 
Alt-F1 back to the installer, choose "Reboot system" and remove the 
installer CD. Hopefully you're now fixed. If not, provide more info 
(error messages, etc) (and please, don't top post).

--
Kent