-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 12 January 2003 02:58 pm, H.J.Bathoorn scribbled incoherently: > On Sunday 12 January 2003 18:40, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Just a curiosity... but since lilo is just about one of the oldest > > programs in linux..... what happened? > > What happened was that lilo installation couldn't be stopped/skipped > ...well no big deal so I installed it in the mbr as I usually do. > > On boot I found all the old entries still there next to the new one. > But they all (the mdk entries) pointed to the same / partition(in my case > hdd1) instead of the ones they originally pointed to. Thus rendering 9.0 > unbootable. > > So I booted up old 9.0 using a boot floppy added 9.1 to lilo.conf, pointing > it to it's proper partition and copied the needed initrd and vmlinuz to > /boot and everything's fine. > > Good luck, > HarM
I'm not so sure I'll be so fortunate since I've tried that previously with an installation of redhat and got far less then stellar results for my efforts. It' a bit slower, but I can get there with a boot disk. - -- Mark - ----------------------------------------------------------- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 & 9.0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IcWtJuZ1geTzHgERAs0QAKCC6ptpL43XcS3fxFJsesU7cfNhmgCaAvNz tWruYGD4n4Hh2oluiTtkfRI= =Mv6G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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