From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 18:28:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 18:28:34 -0400 Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.17]:53256 "EHLO mailout02.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 18:28:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3B994978.3AFA1862@t-online.de> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 00:26:00 +0200 From: SPATZ1@t-online.de (Frank Schneider) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-test i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "SATHISH.J" CC: kernelnewbies , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Reg lilo.conf changed and system doesn't boot In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "SATHISH.J" schrieb: > > Hi, > I know that this is not the place to ask this question.Please forgive me. > I changed the lilo.conf on my machine(redhat 2.2.14-12 kernel) and it > doesn't boot up. I don't have > a boot floppy to boot. I have another disk which has an older version of > linux(2.2.6). I can mount the disk if I boot from the other > disk(2.2.6). Can I > in some way alter the lilo.conf of my disk(2.2.14) and boot linux from > that. Please tell me any ideas to do that. Hello.. Seems you have installed a new kernel and not called lilo before reboot... I would suggest one of these two ways: -Boot from your older hdd and mount the new one, e.g. under /mnt/test. Call lilo, but give him the configfile from your new hdd, it should ly under /mnt/test/etc/lilo.conf, if you have mounted your new, defective linux under /mnt/test: "lilo -C /mnt/test/etc/lilo.conf Before, check that your lilo.conf is correct! (I have to admit that i' ve never tried this myself) -Boot from your older hdd and use the distro-tools to produce an "emergency repair disk", e.g. "mkbootdisk" under RedHat or "yast" under SuSE. Use this repairdisk to boot the defective linux-installation, check /etc/lilo.conf and call lilo. And one hint: It is always a good idea to have a bootdisk on hand...:-) Solong.. Frank. -- Frank Schneider, . Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ... -.-