Thanks, Shaya. I did that and that's when it told me that lilo.conf didn't exist. At this point I suspected that the absence of lilo.conf might indicated that the problems with my filesystem were more severe than I thought so I did a reinstall ... however, is there a way to run without lilo.conf being present? I mean, create a new one?
Thanks! Jen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaya Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 9:37 PM Subject: Re: How do you repair a bad LILO? > boot off the cd like that they told you (or floppy) > > then login as root > > run /sbin/lilo by hand, that should reinstall lilo for you. > > shaya > > On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 00:25, jennyw wrote: > > I reinstalled Debian 2.2. After installing the base system, it rebooted fine > > to finish the rest of the install. I logged in and used it for a bit then > > decided to reboot again. This time it hung after showing "LIL-". I asked on > > #debian on IRC and folks said this meant I had a bad LILO MBR. Someone > > suggested that I try typing "rescue root=/dev/hda1" at the boot: prompt. I > > tried this booting off of the install CD and it ended up loading my Debian > > install just fine, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem when I reboot. > > > > I then booted off a boot floppy and tried to run lilo. It said that there > > was no lilo.conf file. I did a search on the filesystem for lilo.conf and > > there is no file anywhere ... At this point I'm reinstalling (again!), but > > I'd like to know how to fix this problem for the future. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Jen > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED],yucs.org} > http://yucs.org/~spotter/ > > > >
