Have you upgraded the kernel by any chance? This is usually the scenario that causes this. Anyway, the easiest way out is to boot from the install CD, choose expert mode, choose update, choose no packages to install, then just run through a standard install (very quickly). This should straighten on the chaos in your /boot and get you running again.
If it was a kernel upgrade that caused it, note for the future that even though the kernel appears in the security updates list, it should NEVER be installed that way. Instead, download it and do "rpm -ivh kernel..." so that it gets installed alongside your existing kernel. HTH Brian On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 11:34, Jorge A. Pichardo wrote: > Hi all, > > I posted my problem in the newbies group and didn't get no answer yet. > So I posted it here. > For some reason this morning appeared a message in my linux box: > "Loading Linux EBDA too big" and the system halts. It is the same > everytime I boot it. > > I tried to rescue it with the mandrake install CD and tried "chroot > /mnt" and all my directory structure seems ok (boot, dev, home,...) now > in "/" then I tried to mount /boot but I had this error "can't find > boot in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab" I looked into those files and I saw > nothing about the "/boot" and I can't get it booted yet. > I read somewhere else that I need to remount the /boot and run "sync" a > couple of times followed by a lilo -v -v as commands. But I have no luck > yet. > > At this point I don't know how to proceed. Any thoughts, > recommendations???? > > Regards, > Jorge Pichardo > > Victoria - Vancouver British Columbia, Canada > Tel: +250-370-5250 > > > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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