hi... sorry...about all of this...just a little bit of panic after hours of installing and tweaking and installing again and tweaking, but i managed to fix the problem on my own, i was just doing things in the wrong order, but thanks for the responce anyway.
again, apologies for the time lost dealing with this inappropriate post matt On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: > Matt, > > Linux is more than just X. > And this is a X Mailing List. > Nevertheless, you have to get into a stand alone shell (dunno Debian, but > with RedHat you have rescue discs, and with SuSE you have a rescue shell, > so it's basically all the same), then mount your root FS, and then start > lilo with the option (I don't know it out of memory) to point to a > different config file. > For example if you mounted your Linux root to /mnt use lilo -x > /mnt/etc/lilo.conf (where -x is to be replaced through the config-file > switch). > Sorry for not knowing the switch, but I only have a few NetBSD and OpenVMS > boxes available at the moment. > But you can certainly figure it out with man lilo. > > HTH, and don't ask these kind of questions on X Mailing Lists, > Freddy > -- > Geek Code 3.1: GCS s+: a--- C+++ UBOU+++ P-- E--- W++ N w--- V++ PGP- t? 5? tv > > ========================================================================== > Frederik Meerwaldt Homepage: http://www.freddym.org > Bavaria/Germany OpenVMS and Unix Howtos and much more > Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, NetBSD, OpenBSD, IRIX, Tru64, OpenVMS, Ultrix, BeOS > > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
