On Monday 26 November 2001 05:25, 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.
Make a /etc/lilo.conf file something like: ========= BEGIN /etc/lilo.conf ========= lba32 boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map delay=20 prompt #single-key #delay=100 #timeout=100 default=2.4.6 image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.6 label=2.4.6 root=/dev/hda1 vga=791 read-only image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.6-ac label=2.4.6-ac5 root=/dev/hda1 vga=791 read-only image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.13-ac label=2.4.13-ac8 root=/dev/hda1 vga=791 read-only other=/dev/hdb1 label=BSD ========== END /etc/lilo.conf ==========
