FUBARed my install, wont boot :(

2004-02-10 Thread Jamie Kerwick
I'll start by saying I'm new to debian, so please be gentle ;) After 5 or 6 attempts I finally managed to get Debian installed properly with a small range of packages. I then installed a whole host of packages thru dselect. One of which was ALSA (I thought it might help my sound problems, ie,

Re: FUBARed my install, wont boot :(

2004-02-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jamie Kerwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'll start by saying I'm new to debian, so please be gentle ;) After 5 or 6 attempts I finally managed to get Debian installed properly with a small range of packages. I then installed a whole host of packages thru dselect. One of which was

Re: FUBARed my install, wont boot :(

2004-02-10 Thread Kent West
Jamie Kerwick wrote: I'll start by saying I'm new to debian, so please be gentle ;) After 5 or 6 attempts I finally managed to get Debian installed properly with a small range of packages. I then installed a whole host of packages thru dselect. One of which was ALSA (I thought it might help my

Re: FUBARed my install, wont boot :(

2004-02-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I suspect you need to add the line initrd=/initrd.img to /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo. (I would think you could get in by feeding the initrd parameter to the bootup process, but you may need to get in first to figure out what parameter syntax to

Re: FUBARed my install, wont boot :(

2004-02-10 Thread Kent West
Jamie Kerwick wrote: Thanks for this worked perfectly. Here's what I did: Boot from install CD, use 'bf24; install. After selecting installer language, ALT+F2 to console. Mounted the root partition, chroot'ed to this root part. Open /etc/lilo.conf in VIM, inserted the line: '

Re: FUBARed my install, wont boot :(

2004-02-10 Thread Joost Witteveen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I suspect you need to add the line initrd=/initrd.img to /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo. (I would think you could get in by feeding the initrd parameter to the bootup process, but you may