A comment on bad install disks for RH 7.2. I seem to have a bad 2nd CD too. I picked mine up at a RoseLUG meeting. There may have been a bad iso image floating around for download.
Marc --- Henry House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Viswanath: > > Please download tomsrtbt from > http://www.toms.net/rb/. This is a rescue > floppy that is more capable that the Red Hat rescue > floppy. Follow the > instructions to copy the rescue system to a floppy. > Boot the machine from > this floppy. Then examine the partitions on the hard > drive to see if they are > intact. If they are, copy your data and any > customised config files in /etc > to a backup. You should then re-install. (I know > that's drastic and probably > unnecessary, but it is a better use of your time > than manually fixing a badly > broken system.) > > My feeling is that when you aborted the upgrade the > system was left > in a half-installed and un-bootable state. > > (By the way, it is generally not a good idea to > solve problems by re-booting. > There are generally other ways, e.g, you can > probably tell the installer to > skip the problematic package. Re-boot only as a > ltast resort.) > > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 10:20:22AM -0800, Viswanath > P wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Forgot to mention something. The lilo boot > > now had returned LI > > > > and not the full LILO. > > > > What error this LI points to? > > It means that LILO is broken for any number of > reasons. > > > -- > Henry House > The attached file is a digital signature. See > <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> > for information. My OpenPGP key: > <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
