Mikkel,
When you say make a boot disk, during the install when I first did it?
I am not sure if I did that or not, but I think I still have the boot disk that
came with it when I purchased it. Will that do?
S
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On 1/13/2001 at 01:06 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Steven Pierce wrote:
>
>>
>> OK.. Let me try this again. The last time I did this I was told by
>> the list that I could not send a message like this because it was
>> admin related. Why is behond me..
>>
>>
>>
>> Good Evening All,
>>
>> I have a RH 6.1 server. It has been off for about 2 weeks now. I am
>> trying to reboot it, but when I do it just get through POST and then
>> reboots again. This keeps happening, in the past it has done this.
>> It has always been a drive out of order, I have checked this.
>>
>> It figures that when it rain it pours. I have a project due on Monday
>> and now this is happening. HELP....
>>
>> I am not getting LILO message at all. It gets to the point that it
>> should boot LILO and does not. How can make sure that LILO is there??
>>
>> I am a newbie, sorry for the dumb question..
>>
>> Steven
>>
>About the only way I know of to check if LILO is still there is to boot
>off a floppy and check the boot record with a disk editor program. But
>you don't realy need to check if LILO is still there. If you made a boot
>disk then you can boot with that, and run LILO - it will reinstall itself,
>so even if it is corrupted, that will fix things.
>
>If you didn't make a boot disk, it gets a bit harder. You can use the
>install disk and pick rescue. If you don't know your root partition, you
>can use fdisk to find it. Then mount it on /mnt, and run "lilo -r /mnt"
>and it will restore LILO for you.
>
>I just hope you system will boot from a floppy, and that you can still
>access the hard drive. It sounds like you have some type of hardware
>problem, but maybe you are lucky, and only the MBR on the hard drive is
>corrupted.
>
>Mikkel
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