> The first line of dmesg should give you a clue - it gives you the boot
> paramaters. BE CAREFUL here though - up2date utterly trashed one of my
> poweredges by up2date'ing the kernel while I was using grub and left it
> completely unbootable. It was a week before I did a reboot - and it
> wasn't until then that I noticed. Even booting off the rescue CD
> couldn't sort it out. (booting off the debian CD did though <g>)
>Oh, you can be sure I'll be careful Fergal -- a Google for the error message
turned up me whining about the exact same one a while back.
Here's a better question: Is it possible to find out what bootloader it
loaded into the MBR /now/? If so, and it's grub, can I just uninstall lilo
and be damned with it?
adam
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