ned bedinger wrote:
>
> You should also take a squint at your /etc/lilo.conf file next time you're
> booted up from floppy. Make real sure it is really correct about your
> root, the kernel names, etc.
Yeah, I had my suspicions here.......but farting around with the things
here made no odds, neither did entering correct parameters at boot.
Otherwise, I would have sorted this from tech support :-(
> Then run /sbin/lilo to update your boot
> loader. I had the same problem (can't open initial console) and this
> attention to lilo cleared it up.
Now this was a relevation! I had not thought of this, newbie that I am.
Too much of hacking win.ini et al, I suppose. Added to what I had
decided suse's yast did wrong for me, THIS DID SORT IT :-))
> Etiology: I deleted my linux partitions
> and re-installed without also deleting lilo. It kept my old boot info
> (kernel names, root partition, etc) -- v-e-r-y ugly thing to try and boot a
> new installation from. And it apparently keeps RH5.1 installer from being
> able to re-install lilo in the MBR during an 'install everything' install.
I hit this too. But what I did was to delete the partitions, and
recreate them in a different order (Shades of M$ Windoze!). Otherwise it
just finds everything again and you're still in a mess!
> Hope this helps.
It sure did, thanks.
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Regards
Declan Moriarty.
