-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 November 2001 08:25 pm, 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
You could 'dpkg-reconfigure lilo' , I think if you don't have a lilo.conf file it will generate one. - -- Greg Madden -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwB7xwACgkQaefA3q8KcpCZwwCgjHTd9zCD+TLiP+9zcMcFuwSS fTcAoJQxVNl9WOfdz1TNQKjQUuQE+/IL =daax -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
