I apologize for the bandwidth. The last time we met, I was unable to boot my machine, which suffered a horrid clattering/clacking sound after displaying LILLinux02 and freezing.
At last I have solved this problem. Perhaps this information will be of interest. The problem was due to my having, after compiling my own kernels, installed the vmlinuz link in /boot . Not in / . When I upgraded, I suppose I didn't pay enough attention---perhaps due to the large amount of information accompanying that recent sid upgrade. Lilo installed its own /etc/lilo.conf. There was no longer any link "/vmlinuz" to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19 or whatever. Once I booted the system from a rescue disk as Osamu Aoki mentioned to another user. edited /etc/lilo.conf, and ran lilo, the machine boots fine. Alan Davis. On Tue, 1 May 2001 23:58:42 +1000 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My drive is ok, but the MBR has been hosed. Lilo now displays this message > > LILLinux02 > > Once in a few boot attempts, this doesn't actually lead to a clattering > sound. At these times, a peach colored screen appears with a neatly formatted > table listinG all the kernels in my lilo.conf. > > Nothing happens. > > I have installed linux on another partition on the same drive. > The drive is behaving fine. > > In hda1 is a BUNCH of these files: > > errsXXXX(etc) > > They all look to be empty. > > This is too bizaare to have happened only to me. Has anyone > ever seen such a thing? > > Alan Davis > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-235-6580 Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)