Thanks for all that useful information.
The sequence was: first kernel panic from HD boot, then
hung on LI... then
kernel panic when booting from
lilo boot floppy
As for me becoming paniky, knowing to have your vast knowledge
behind me, -no way!
Reinstalling linux still gave LI hang and kernel panic from boot floppy
untill I threw the diskette away and got a new one and at the same time
reformatted and scanned the hard drive in DOS.
Regards
>> I can't tab since machine hangs on LIL...
<Now hang on here! You can't have it both ways. If it
>hangs on LIL,
>there is no way you can get a kernel panic. You have to load the kernel
>before it will be able to panic. I think you got the first kernel
>panic, and then you panicked and reinstalled linux, but didn't reinstall
>lilo, so it doesn't work. Any time one of lilo's files changes at all,
>you must reinstall lilo, or it is extremely unlikely it will work.
> > fdisk /mbr
>>
>> Thanks that did it. When LILO is screwed-up I can neither boot Linux
nor
>> W98. I don't have a W98 CD.
>> I got all working now after further scanning the HD which is flawless
and
>> the floppy boot which might have been corrupted. I changed it with a
new
>> one. My spare in the fridge had by now the wrong / hdd#
>>
>If it is a lilo boot floppy, you can override that at the boot: prompt
>with FI
>linux root=/dev/hda6
>If it is a raw kernel image, I bet there is in dosutils in your distro a
>file rdev.exe so you can fix it from windows, but of course if you can't
>boot windows... :-) You can make a lilo boot floppy that can boot a
>windows partition as well as a linux kernel, if you like. Just add an
>other =
>section in the config file you use to make it.
>
>Lawson
--
Peter
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