it just stops with "LI" and goes no further. I read in the archives that this means that Lilo can't completely load.
.. but what does the "rescue" command do? Chris > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:05AM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: > > > I'm getting the LI hang on boot. I tried booting from my floppy, but it > > gives me a kernel panic... > > with what message? > > > I now read that I can boot from floppy with the "rescue root=/dev/hda1", > but > > I'm assuming that this is the default mode the floppy boots in anyways, > or > > is it? > > is /dev/hda1 your / partition? > > if it isn't, if it is /dev/hdb2 or something, then boot from the rescue > floopy > so : > > linux root=/dev/hdb2 > > > If I could get back in with the floppy, I'd try rerunning LILO to get > things > > back in order, but I'm afraid I'm not going to get that far. Any > > suggestions? How can I tell if I've got a real hardware problem? > Knoppix? > > you can boot with the floppy even if you have hw(hdd) problems. > if you cannot boot with root= explicit given, then boot with the > installfloppy, wait until he wants to have rootfs disk, give it him, > and when the installscreen comes, alt+f2 and you have a shell. > > HTH > > charlie > > -- > Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS > Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
