[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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/
Make a GRUB boot floppy. You don't have to install GRUB on your system as your boot loader, and the GRUB
floppy will allow you to boot to any kernel on your system (as long as GRUB understands the filesystem).
Pat
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