Marcia Waller wrote:
>
> Dear Paul, I went to the Lilo boot prompt and typed "linux failsafe".I got
> back "no such image. [tab] shows a list. I then used the tab key and then I
> got : linux windows floppy. I do not know what this means or what to
> do now. By the way how do you exit the Lilo prompt and setup ?
>
> What is the best way to exit setup if it just freezes?
> Thank you for your help. Marcia
Marcia,
You may want to try typing 'linux single' at the LILO prompt. I know for
a fact this will work and get you into Linux at least to the point where
you can run linuxconf to attempt to get things straightened out. From
reading through the thread it sounds like your system is hanging up just
as it's attempting to mount the 'root' file system in read/write mode.
Typing 'linux single' at the LILO prompt will take you to a bash prompt.
you can't run X or anything like that, but you will be able to edit your
system files and run linuxconf which will give you the ability to fix
whatever is wrong. From inside linuxconf you should be able to view the
log files. Check you 'boot' log and see what's going on just before the
system attempts to mount the '/' file system. I'm betting you have to
file corruption in a file the kernel is trying to read and cannot, which
is the reason it's hanging up. It can't make sense of the contents of
that file. All you have to do is find that file and fix it.
hope this helps you,
--
Mark
