On Thursday 26 April 2001 15:37, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote: > > Hey all... > > > > I recompiled my kernel 2.4.2, and did all of the System.map, > > vmlinuz copying, then ran LILO (which seemed quite happy). > > However, when I boot the computer, I get the following prompt, > > after which it freezes: > > LIL- > > I had a similar problem. Mine was due to a corrupt boot sector. I fixed > it by running > > >fdsk /mbr > > (or something like that I can't exactly recall) from a windoz startup disk. > This will kill your boot sector and "fix" it. After that you need to > reinstall lilo, edit lilo.conf, run lilo, and your golden.
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