mbr / lilo ? what's my problem ?

Hello, I have updated some new packages yesterday, and today I get the lilo prompt, but it doesn't go further than: Loading 1. I don't quite understand what my problem is. Do I need to fix the MBR, or do I need to play with lilo? (I think it's option 2, because it goes like Boot: MBR

dpkg / apt history

I just installed a new package, using apt-get. Apt-get figured that some packages were in its way, and politely asked me to replace them. Woe unto me! Although the system boots normally, I can't 'startx', or 'ifup eth0'... Is there a way to backtrack the changes that have occured on my box?

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Hello, seem to have a lot of problem for a single Monday morning... I booted my system this morning, and it gave a 'kernel panic: attempted to kill init' msg. I used a rescue floppy to 'e2fsck' all the partitions, and now it's clean. But, it still gives me the same 'attempted to kill init'

attempted to kill init.

(sorry for 1st post without subject!) Hello, seem to have a lot of problem for a single Monday morning... I booted my system this morning, and it gave a 'kernel panic: attempted to kill init' msg. I used a rescue floppy to 'e2fsck' all the partitions, and now it's clean. But, it still gives

virus detection

Hello, I posted a question earlier about a kernel panic. I don't know exactly where to report this, but I apparently got infected by a virus: /etc, /sbin, /bin and so on are owned by gandalf, 'find' has disappeared. /var has disappeared. My question is 'how do i backtrace this thing?' if at all

What partition?

Out of curiosity I spent my weekend trying to reinstall Deb 2.2 out of floppies, on a 4GB HD. The installation kept sending me back to the floor, (the floppies would die before the end of the install of the base, or it wouldn't make the hd bootable). I was using a partition like /boot

dpkg snapshot

Hello, I have a hosed system, and I'd like to do a clean reinstall... I would like to keep the .deb configuration I had. Is there a way using eg dpkg to take a snapshot of the packages installed now, and feed this file at a later time to select the packages to install? Thanks, Matt

e2fsck permission denied, file system read only, ...

Hello, I recently decided to make my computer slimmer, and removed a couple of packages (mostly related to emacs). Shortly after, vim wouldn't work anymore, giving errors with libXi.so.6 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, although that lib was there... And when I ended up