hi
i've been running sid and after an apt-get -f upgrade yesterday morning, i found that my lilo hangs. the letters "LIL.." come up and it simply freezes. i read through several man-pages and lists and figured that the lilo may be pointing to incorrect map or something simply wrong with the MBR. several people have mentioned creating a boot-floppy using mkboot. can i create a boot-floppy on another sid machine using this utility (by specifying the correct boot partition?) if i point to a boot partition like /dev/hda5, how will it work since that device may not be created at boot (on mine its something like /dev/ide/bus0/target0/.../part5). i also bumped into this location, is that all thats needed? ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy/access/ the second alternative was that i install grub or lilo again. is there a way to do this via the installation CD? i find the option to install grub but am afraid that it looks like the installation will reformat the partition (the help on installation says any partition with a :) will retain data but the rest will be erased). is there an installation version that will allow me to just mount formatted partitions and install grub or lilo? thanks -- -- praveen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
