On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:51:18PM +0200, Vegar Åsmul wrote: > Clinton V. Weiss wrote: > > >To my frustration, upgrading a server over 200 miles from me remotely has > >failed. The dist-upgrade worked just fine, and then I decided to reboot it. > >A few minutes later attempts to contact the machine failed, ping timeouts, ssh > >timeouts, etc etc. > >I contacted someone who is at the location to tell me what they see on the > >computer's console, all they see is LI_ with the _ blinking. This tells me > >that LILO started, and never finished. > > Seems you simply forgot to run 'lilo' after upgrading. Boot from a floppy disk > or similar, run 'lilo' (or perhaps 'liloconfig') to upgrade lilo.config and > reboot. Worked for me before. :) > This is why it is better to run Grub. If you use symlinks, you never have to reinstall it. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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