On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 10:10, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday September 17 2002 07:53 am, Bob Read wrote: > > Looking for best way to fix my 8.2. > > It has been working fine, and still seems to be > > OK when I boot from a floppy, but booting from > > the HD it gets to about "press I for interactive" > > and stalls. It is a dual boot with win98, and > > I had been updating windows (after a long period > > of disuse) between the time it last worked Ok, > > and now. Norton crashed several times in that > > process. > > Norton probly trashed lilo. Go ahead and boot Linux from the floppy > and in a terminal, su to root, and type 'lilo'. It should complete > without error messages and successfully reinstall lilo. You should > then be able to boot from the harddrive again.
No way. LILO's done it's job by now. It only does "Booting linux... Uncompressing the kernel....................OK" Then control is turned over to the kernel. So it's a kernel problem. > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- *Michael Notforyou* Registered Linux User #197888 Registered Linux Machine #166780 LINUX ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 700 SERIES: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ //42!
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