On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Jeroen wrote:
> Well, I replaced the battery, upgraded the BIOS and for now the time is OK.
> Strange 'cause the old battery was from '97 and I got another pc a much older
> MB witch still works fine (knock on wood...), but it seems that was the
> problem
> about the date, thanx.
This is just about luck. So you can't assume the age of the
battery...
> Aldouh I still can't boot Linux...
> I'm able to get into Linux by booting for the installation bootdisk and when
> I get the option to enter some parameters I type 'mount root=/dev/hdd2'
> and it's ok, but I can't go on like this so my last shot is 'play' a bit with
> fdisk
Well... if you get to enter those paremeters, than maybe you
should check /etc/lilo.conf
> and if that doesn't work, just format and reinstall...
This is not an option. If you can get (no matter how) Linux
running, there should be a fix as well.
Raider
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