Re: Further LILO woes

2000-01-11 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Mon, 10 Jan, 2000 à 05:32:46PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'm still having a helluva time trying to make Lilo boot potato off > /dev/hdc1 (second HD). Nothing seems to work. > > I have just tried (as Howard Mann suggested) booting potato's kernel > with my slink's lilo (which is install

Further LILO woes

2000-01-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
I'm still having a helluva time trying to make Lilo boot potato off /dev/hdc1 (second HD). Nothing seems to work. I have just tried (as Howard Mann suggested) booting potato's kernel with my slink's lilo (which is installed in /dev/hda4 and works perfectly for booting from there). What I did was t

Re: Lilo woes

1998-05-01 Thread Ossama Othman
> > 2. Can anyone suggest how I could restore NT as the default boot? If fdisk /mbr doesn't work try to RTFM! :) Just kidding. Actually, LILO stores the original MBR in /boot. Read the LILO docs in /usr/doc/lilo to get detailed instructions on which file to "dd" and what dd flags are needed.

Re: Lilo woes

1998-05-01 Thread King Lee
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote: [snip] > > So my questions are as follows: > > 1. Where can I find a good tutorial for vi? I liked the papers by the authors of vi and ex available at ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/BSD/manuals/ with names usd.15.vi.ps.Z and usd.16.ex.ps.Z. Most intr

Re: Lilo woes

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I am an emacs user myself...when im in X anyway... but...debian has a few other cool editors... ae (which is part of the base and base disks) is tiny and very easy to use (unfortunatly the lastest version in 2.0 has some problems...partially due to slang -- which i just found out about a few minits

Re: Lilo woes

1998-04-30 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote: > Thanks to everyone who gave opinions and advice on the HTML editor. I can't > stand 'vi' (the DOS to Linux HOWTO is right when it says that DOS users > probably won't like vi! Is there a good tutorial? the man page assumes you > know it well), so when I ge

Lilo woes

1998-04-30 Thread Tristan Day
Thanks to everyone who gave opinions and advice on the HTML editor. I can't stand 'vi' (the DOS to Linux HOWTO is right when it says that DOS users probably won't like vi! Is there a good tutorial? the man page assumes you know it well), so when I get everything working again (see below) I think I

Re: LILO woes.

1998-03-28 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Well, when it changes you've left an old LILO in your MBR, which is > why it doesn't work. The new one is in your boot sector instead. > You should be able to disk "FDISK /MBR" in DOS to reinstall a standard > MBR, or install the mbr package I think, to

Re: LILO woes.

1998-03-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 06:41:09AM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: > For some reason, my old lilo.conf had /dev/hda as the boot device. After > I upgraded, the boot device changed to /dev/hda1, same as yours. I had > the same problems you did, i.e. LILO would never start completely. Also, > somethin

Re: LILO woes.

1998-03-27 Thread wtopa
Subject: LILO woes. Date: Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 12:45:28AM -0500 In reply to:Nathan C. Burnett Quoting Nathan C. Burnett([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have a non-fatal albeit annoying problem. I'm running debian 1.3 and I > absolutly cannot get LILO to work prope

Re: LILO woes.

1998-03-27 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Nathan, > boot=/dev/hda1 > root=/dev/hda1 For some reason, my old lilo.conf had /dev/hda as the boot device. After I upgraded, the boot device changed to /dev/hda1, same as yours. I had the same problems you did, i.e. LILO would never start completely. Also, something similar happened to o

Re: LILO woes.

1998-03-27 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Nathan C. Burnett wrote: > I have a non-fatal albeit annoying problem. I'm running debian 1.3 and I > absolutly cannot get LILO to work properly. When the machine starts to > boot the 'LI' shows up the the machine locks (have to use the reset button > ctrl-alt-del doesn't wo

LILO woes.

1998-03-27 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
I have a non-fatal albeit annoying problem. I'm running debian 1.3 and I absolutly cannot get LILO to work properly. When the machine starts to boot the 'LI' shows up the the machine locks (have to use the reset button ctrl-alt-del doesn't work). The LILO is version 19. I'm running a Cyrix 6x