On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:18:41PM -0400, Liam Black wrote: > > I will try your advice this evening. How did you recreate /boot/boot.b, > though? Was this part of the lilo Process? > > Thank you for your detailed and informative response. Even if it does not > assist me, it will likely assist others! > > leem
Liam, you accidentally replied off-list, so I'm posting the reply back to debian-user in case it would be helpful to others in the same boat. *I* didn't recreate /boot/boot.b, it was done auto-magically when I reinstalled lilo. When I replaced my failing hard drive (hda), which had my Windows installation plus my Debian potato /boot partition, I stupidly neglected some sage advice from the lilo manual located in /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz: Begin quote ---------------- - If performing a destructive upgrade and/or erasing your Linux partitions, de-install LILO _before_ that if using it as the MBR. End quote ------------------ I inferred from this that if I used dselect to uninstall then reinstall lilo, that I might help myself. It worked. When I reinstalled lilo the install or configuration scripts asked me a couple of questions, nothing esoteric, but I simply don't remember what info I was prompted for. No matter, after I reinstalled lilo, the /boot/boot.b and map files I was missing had been recreated by the package installation, and Debian was bootable from the hard disk again. It's worth a try, and certainly less hassle than recompiling your kernel. Cordially, Mark S. Reglewski
