According to aoc2: While burning my CPU. > > > I'm having trouble with lilo and would be grateful for any help. > For some inexplicable reason, it stopped updating lilo.conf. To be > specific, last night, I changed my lilo password to something else. > I reran /sbin/lilo, rebooted the machine, entered the new password, and > was instantly greeted by 'Incorrect password. try again'. So I did, this > time using the old password. Only then was I allowed in. > Another problem, pretty much related to the first, is I cannot run the new > kernel (2.0.36) on account of lilo failing to update its configuration > file. How do I fix this? > > Quite possably you have made a typo in /etc/lilo.conf, to check where lilo is stopping you could use. lilo -v -v >file.txt Error messages will be written on the screen, other succesfull commands go to the file file.txt. It could also be that you have changed permissions of /etc/lilo.conf in such a way that it cant be read. Remember if you use the password parameter in lilo and the file /etc/lilo.conf is readable by users, then a warning message will be written to the screen, have you changed permissions.???. Another thing is, if you have deleted any files in /boot or / such as an old image and the entry is still in lilo.conf that will also cause lilo to fail. -- Regards Richard. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
