[H-GEN] Boot from floppy

Craig Eldershaw ce at comlab.ox.ac.uk
Sun Aug 30 05:37:15 EDT 1998


Hi Steve,

>Installation seems to work fine, but once I try to boot back into Linux
>again, LILO refuses to boot.  It gets as far as saying "LI", and then
>freezes.  

Have you edited the /etc/lilo.conf file ?  Your first two lines should 
probably be:

boot=/dev/sdb
root=/dev/sdb1   <---- or whichever is your root partition

And if this file is correct, make sure you re-run lilo (ie. at the
shell prompt, as root type "lilo") to update the configuration.

HTH,
	Craig.






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