-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John P Verel wrote:
>Did you get an error code along side the "L"? Werner Almesberger's LILO >"User's guide", sections 5.2.1 and 5.2.2, page 44, documents these codes >to tell you what's going on. If you can't get to this document, post >the code and I'll get the info to you. (There's 16 different >possibilities). Or just use loadlin. LILO's a PIA on old machines like that. Easily confused about geometry with old BIOS's. It's not worth the hassle of a reinstall, which may not fix the problem anyway. Booting from a floppy is easy. - -d >> I' trying to reurrect an old 486 for use as a router. It became >> apparent that the battery, a Dallas Realtime clock, had seen better >> days, so I replaced it. Apparently that was a mistake. Lilo only gets >> to "L", and the system won't boot from the recently made boot floppy. >> Both the hd's auto-detect fine. I can boot it into rescue mode. I did >> that, then did: >> >> # chroot /mnt/sysimage # /sbin/lilo >> >> Which acted normally, but didn't fix it. >> >> Is there any hope for it short of a complete reinstall? > > - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPFoaRL9BpdPKTBGtEQKGLwCgrMCI7EyfBljZKvVtpkYHJ21FF0EAn3YR 3HV7UPptwF5wdDYsa0pN6Ohb =FeCj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
