I am running RH 6.0 w/ Gnome on a NEC Ultra-Mini 486. I never could get LILO to boot RH from the hard drive, so I was using a boot diskette. There are two partitions on the 200MB drive- a root (hda1) of 190MB, and a swap (hda2/5) of 10MB. The diskette is having I/O errors, and my backup bootdisks are nowhere to be found. I have another system running the same RH6 (2.2.5-15) but booting from a different partition (it is a dual boot system) and running K (not Gnome)- is there a way to "mkbootdisk" a new bootdisk and manually edit it to work with the NEC system which boots from hda1? I tried hacking a new bootdisk, but get stuck at "LIL-". I have used the rescue disk to boot the NEC and mount the hard drive, but being a newbie, I am lost as to what I could do from the prompt to bring the system (and x) back up. Any help would be much appreciated. I have already read the LILO mini-howto and attempted to create a bootdisk from scratch, however, I have not had any luck. -Jonathan Mckee
