"John P. Looney" <jplooney at online.ie> wrote:
Noel Carroll wrote:
>> After recompiling my kernel last night my machine stopped booting. When
Lilo
> comes up, the prompt is
>> LIL-
>> and that's as far as it gets.
Check the docs!
/usr/doc/lilo-0.21/README says:
LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by
a
geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map
installer.
Alas, I've no idea what that means :)
See if you can boot off CD, mount the root partition under /broken, and
re-run lilo like so:
lilo -R /broken
You didn't overwrite the /boot/map file with System.map or anything,
did you ?
<Noel>
'fraid to say I did! Stupid yes! I wasn't paying attention at the time.
I'm booting off a floppy anytway but its just the RH install floppy.
</Noel>
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