Jeff Waugh was once rumoured to have said:
> <quote who="Andrew Dick">
>
> > I recently tried to compile a new kernel on my RedHat7 system and all went
> > okay except LILO hangs at LIL-. I believe it something to do with the
> > mapping.
>
> Just as an aside, this page rocks for LILO letter-erros:
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/a1405.html
>
> First thing to try is booting with a tomsrtbt disk [1], chrooting to your
> mounted root partition (if you have a separate /boot, mount it after you've
> chrooted), and running lilo. Make sure your /etc/lilo.conf is pointing /boot
> and /root to the right places.
Erk! not tomsrtbt! *choke* 1.7MB floppies are EVIL. [unless he's
*finally* fixed that]
Mind you, this is overkill most of the time.
* you don't need to chroot to your real disk - thats what lilo -r is for.
* You can often get away by using your distro's rescue disk, and using
it to mount your root partition as /, so you can run lilo to reinstall
it.
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