Stephen, > I think you might have been somewhat confused by my suggestions. > I actually gave two completely different alternative recovery scenarios.
Yes. I'd missed Alternative number 1 and followed 2 approximately. I used the ncurses interface whereas you refer to the CLUI. > If you can't find an installer CD which uses the same kernel version that > you are using, The extant system has 2.6.30 and 2.6.32 in /boot. The "daily built" Squeeze installer worked with no snags. > With boot=/dev/hda1, lilo will install itself in the boot sector > of the first partition on drive /dev/hda. Understood. > I assume that you changed it to say boot=/dev/hda Yes. > Read the man page for lilo.conf carefully. OK, the installation default is "delay=0" but even with non-zero delay I couldn't get the Lilo prompt. Finally I changed "install=bmp" to "install=menu" and booted single with no problem. > Now, is it possible to create a third menu item, > ... put "single" in the append option ... That's it! Thanks. The system is on its feet again. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Google "pathology workshop" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
