Can you still start-up from a Linux boot disk ( you make one during install)? If so, it's probably not a hard drive issue.
- Paul Rodríguez On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 04:03, Joe Janzen wrote: > Hi, > > I was going to write about a different problem, but now something far > worse has happened! Although my system did not crash, and I didn't even > previously do a hard shutdown, I get the following message when my > machine powers on: > LILO 21.7 Loading linux................. > > And absolutely nothing happens after that, and there is no hard drive > activity. Since it had been making some "odd" noises recently, I'm > thinking my hard drive has gone bad, but I'm wondering if someone knows > of anything I can try before I do anything drastic (like replacing it > and reinstalling Linux from scratch). BTW, I just recently updated my > kernel to the latest one off of MandrakeUpdate, 2.4.8 I think. > > Thanks very much, > Joe > > > ------------=_1011344224-762-1380 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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