Dan Brown wrote:
Again, it's not "/sbin/lilo", it's "/mnt/sbin/lilo". Your /sbin
directory contains only what's on the rescue disk, which (as you know)
doesn't include lilo. /mnt/sbin is the /sbin directory on your normal
system, and that's where you'd need to run lilo from. You don't
I finally found a solution which turns out to be close in spirit to Matt's.
("mount root=/dev/hdax" did not work for me but maybe I did something wrong.)
In what follows, "hdb1" stands for the root filesystem partition, "hda" for
the mbr partition (with windows on it). Adjust your situation
Dear folks
John Connell wrote:
At the bash prompt try typing in "su" you should then get a
"[root@localhost root]#" prompt, then try typing "startx" and see if that
does anything.
I meant to say "/sbin/lilo" then type in "reboot."
Well, "su" was not a recognised command from #bash.
If not make another disk from your distribution cdrom or source.
Sorry to bug you but: What kind of disk? I already tried making a boot disk
(and could not), I made a rescue disk, and my installation disk works fine.
How do I make the disk you are talking about?
Thanks again
Idris
Dear folks:
I recently had to reinstall Windows after it began seriously
misbehaving, but lost lilo in the process. Now I can't get Mandrake 5.2
to boot up. I tried using the rescue disk, got to the #bash prompt, but
have no idea what to do next. I tried reinstalling lilo from the CD
(using the
Dear folks:
I recently spoke to my computer hardware dealer about upgrading some of
my computer parts. He told me that once he was done he would install
RedHat 6.0 for me. I told him I wanted Mandrake and this is what he
said:
"Mandrake is dead. The whole idea behind Mandrake was to integrate
One way to do this:
Run KDEAppFinder so that KDE finds the Adobe Reader. Then add the Adobe Reader to
the Panel. Click with the right mouse button on the panel button for Adobe, then
click "Properties". Go to the execute tab, where you can now add the pdf-type
from the right column to the left
Greetings:
Ok, I bought, from a linux systems distributor, a linux-compatible 56K
modem and a SoundBlaster AWE64 soundcard. I cannot get either to work
with Mandrake up to now.
Modem: My computer manufacturer had disabled COM2; from the BIPS setup, I
reenabled it; dmesg gives me
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Serial
Quinton Jones Jr wrote:
I just installed Festen (5.3), but none of the installed non-KDE packages
are listed in kpanel's menu listings. This is at odds with Leeloo (5.2),
where quite a number of installed non-KDE packages were listed on kpanel's
menu listings after install. Does anyone
