On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:40:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Last night, I (foolishly) added a couple of items (hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe) 
> to the "append" line of lilo.conf without testing them first, and now the 
> boot process panics with:
> 
> Cannot open root device "hda2" or unknown-block(0,0)
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
> 
> So, is there any way, at the boot prompt, to tell Lilo not to append any 
> options?  (No help from Google; my Google Fu must be weak this morning.)

Run lilo again after rebooting :)

You can boot your system by rescue CDs.  Grub CD is one good one.

http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch04.en.html#stagecthebootloader
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch05.en.html#securingtherootpassword


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