[H-GEN] lilo down, I'm bummed

[robert stanford]

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Dont despair things arent so bad, heres a list of error codes for your
situation. 

http://www.yggdrasil.com/bible/lilo/user/node69.html#bioserr

You linux install should be in perfect condition, this looks likeits
only a bootloader problem.

You need to get booted and typicaly you should be able to boot of your
mandrake cd or rescue floppy and at the lilo/syslinux prompt enter
something like

linux root=/dev/hda1  or
vmlinux root=/dev/hdc2  

first bit is the kernelimage and the second bet (root=) indicates what
partition the kernel should mount as the root filesystem. If you cant
remember just keep trying.

Once you are up again check you lilo.conf file, the error you got might
be related to an entry the Mandrake upgrade added.

Once you get logged in as root just run lilo and you should be ok.

Robert Stanford


On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 18:08, Jimmy Freese wrote:
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> Just tried to do an upgrade of my Mandrake 8.1 system to 8.2. Couldn't get
> it to see the network card so I did another upgrade with different
> settings for the card. Now when I boot the system I get 01 01 01 01 
> forever, no lilo. Tried to use the disk for rescue and it seems to show
> that the
> partitions are in place but I can't figure out how to boot in either win or
> linux. The system is a dual boot with Win ME and mandrake. 
> 
> I backed up a few things but not nearly as much as I would have liked to,
> especially on the win side.
> 
> I think I might puke.
> 
> Any help would be really great as I am in bad shape.
> 
> Thanks
> Jimmy
> 
> 
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