On Tuesday 17 September 2002 05:15 pm, you wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 10:10, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Tuesday September 17 2002 07:53 am, Bob Read wrote: > > > Looking for best way to fix my 8.2. > > > It has been working fine, and still seems to be > > > OK when I boot from a floppy, but booting from > > > the HD it gets to about "press I for interactive" > > > and stalls. It is a dual boot with win98, and > > > I had been updating windows (after a long period > > > of disuse) between the time it last worked Ok, > > > and now. Norton crashed several times in that > > > process. > > > > Norton probly trashed lilo. Go ahead and boot Linux from the floppy > > and in a terminal, su to root, and type 'lilo'. It should complete > > without error messages and successfully reinstall lilo. You should > > then be able to boot from the harddrive again. > > No way. LILO's done it's job by now. It only does "Booting linux... > Uncompressing the kernel....................OK" Then control is turned > over to the kernel. So it's a kernel problem. > > > -- > > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > > > ---- wonder how long he waited? a missconfigured server could take some time to time out. does he have any info from alt f2 or any other alt fx combo?
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