Re: [newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot

2002-09-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 17 2002 07:03 pm, Bob Read wrote: Tom: Updating lilo doesn't solve the problem, but experimenting with it proves that the problem is after it. Well, there's several files on the floppy, and like booting from the HDD (/boot) all need to present/not corrupted.

[newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Read
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

Re: [newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot

2002-09-17 Thread Brian Parish
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 22:53, 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

Re: [newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot

2002-09-17 Thread Michael Notforyou
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

Re: [newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot

2002-09-17 Thread et
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 05:15 pm, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] My 8.2 Stalls on Boot

2002-09-17 Thread Bob Read
Michael: You're right that the problem is after lilo. Brian:I ran the upgrade and it completed -- but no change. John: Failsafe boots ok but doesn't find or solve the problem Tom: Updating lilo doesn't solve the problem, but experimenting with it proves that the