Thanks guys for your help! I can't thank you enough!!! > Use the Debian Rescue disk to boot your system but mount your existing > root partition as the root instead of allowing the rescue disk to mount a > ram disk as root. For example, when presented with the "boot:" prompt > from the rescue disk type: > > linux root=/dev/hda1
This did the trick - with a small modification. First I had to restore the /etc/init.d/boot - it seems that hamm doesn't have this file anymore, but because my system wasn't configured properly - it needed it. I have now managed to install and configure most of the hamm packages, though there were many difficulties. I don't know why the boot sector was corrupted - but it wasn't anything to do with "linear" settings - I checked the BIOS and the disks were set to NORMAL - as they always have been. And the lilo.conf was the same as I had always been using. I suspect the boot sector was corrupted. I have rerun lilo and it boots fine. > Instead of manually configuring the lilo.conf file, try using liloconfig > instead. Liloconfig is fairly interactive and it helps to make sure that > your lilo.conf file is configured properly. I did this just to see what it gave. It gave the same as what I already had except for two things: 1. it had boot=/dev/hda1 instead of boot=/dev/hda 2. it didn't allow me to boot from my dos partition On the second point, I notice that I can no longer do loader = /boot/any_d.b because the file is not there. Anyone know anything about this? I've solved the problem simply by commenting out this line, but I would like to know what's happened. Cheers, and once again, thanks, Mark. __________________________________________________________________________ _\________/___\______/___________________________Mark_Phillips___________/ ____\__/_____\__/--\__/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ____\__/HE___\__/------APTAIN/ ________________________________ ____\__/_____\__/--\__/______/ /__"To be is to do."__I. Kant___/ ____\__/______\______/_______/ /__"To do is to be."__A. Sartre_/ /__"I am."____________God_______/ /__Jesus did.___________________/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]