Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > Sorry, should have done some reading before posting the above, my bad... > > > > I've read the LILO howto and that says that pressing tab should do the > > trick, > > or holding down alt or shift when the LILO bit comes up. But neither of > > these > > action seem to make any difference - the machine continues booting > > regardless. > > > > thanks > > alex > > > > I believe not being able to enter text at the lilo prompt has something > to do with your lilo configuration but I do not know more then that. I > do not know about the MBR thing either. > > An alternative strategy might be to boot from a rescue disk and try to > continue from there.
I've tried this and get "kernel panic: could not mount root file system." A screenshot is at http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~lard/kernel.panic.jpg I notice it mentions SCSI things again, but I've not installed any SCSI devices. What should I do in this situation? I'm more concerned with not losing data on the disk than resucing my debian install, although doing both would be preferable. > As for the file system debug/repair tools I referred to, I meant e2fsck > and recursively all the other programs that are mentioned in the `See > Also' part of its manpage. If the bad partition is not ext2 then there > should be similar programs for the relevant file system. > When dealing with those programs you might want to compare the output > of a well behaved partition to that of the bad one. > Of course, these programs should be handled with extra care so that you > will not cause damage to a healthy partition. Ok, thanks for that info. alex
