Am Friday 08 December 2000 17:46 schrieb mallum: > Hello all; > > Im running Woody on my desktop box at work. Yesterday I did an apt-get > update, apt-get upgrade. It was a while since Id done that so quite alot of > stuff got updated including the kernel. Everything seemed fine. > > Later on in the day I had to reboot and I was greeted by a continual; > > Lilo loading Linux ..................... > > Lilo loading Linux ..................... > > Lilo loading Linux ..................... > > (over and over again with no Linux Loading) > > I tried the rescue option from the original potato install cd and it nearly > came back up until the screen was filled with an error message complaining > about loading kernel modules and not being able to write to the disk. > > Later on I managed to mount the hardrive via another rescue disk (via > freshmeat) and tried to rerun lilo but it was confused about paths due to > /dev/hda1 having to be mounted on /mnt.
Never seen this before. If you want to run lilo, you have to pass the -r option i.e. # lilo -r /mnt -C configfile in order to give it the right path. Good luck, -Cajus
