Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:11:33AM -0400, David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com> was heard to say:
> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 21:12 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > I don't know what the problem is since I haven't used LILO since, I
> > think, Potato (IOW, I think I was using Grub on Sarge).
> >
> > You could go ahead and reinstall and use Grub. If you want to try to
> > fis things, here's what I'd suggest:
> >
> > 1. Boot the installer in rescue mode and get a shell chrooted to
> > your system. It will then be like the system booted.
> >
> > 2. Use aptitude and install grub while removing LILO.
> >
> > 3. Since the kernel install itself went OK, you may now be fine.
> >
> > 4. If not, Grub may give you a better error message.
> >
>
> I somehow doubt this will work. The installer probably chose LILO for a
> good reason.
I agree with that. It might be worth trying to boot in rescue mode
and running lilo manually, though. It sounds to me like maybe something
went wrong with the lilo installation after the kernel upgrade.
Daniel
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