Hey y'all, OK, so last night, I replaced the POS video card with a slightly less POS video card. (The first POS video card was AGP, this one's PCI and temporary until I can get a better AGP one and free up that PCI slot.) Anyway, believe it or don't, I got through the whole Debian install without a lockup or a crash or anything. It's all installed. I can't find pine, elm, pico, and some other things...they didn't seem to install...but once I learn to use apt-get I expect I can get them. But the more pressing issue is.....lilo. I took a working lilo.conf off my working PC and deleted the entries for partitions I didn't have on the new one and set up to boot off the MBR with the root file system as /dev/hda1 I made a symbolic link from /boot/vmlinuz (which links to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14) to /vmlinuz so that lilo can find the image. After configuring lilo, I ran lilo, which said that it installed the Linux partition and wrote the MBR. So I rebooted the computer without the rescue floppy, and...lilo made a sound that sounded like I'd been shot by a video game from the 1980's. And of course it didn't boot. Any ideas what the sound meant--and what I can do to fix it? -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV Email: davros at ycardz.com Voice mail: 877-791-5298 All opinions are all mine!
