Can't help you but I can say that there are some buggs in lilo which you would have seen if you'd installed apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges. Good luck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <n3byy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 4:16 PM Subject: non-booting Debian sid box > I know this is my own fault for running sid perhaps, but I sure could > use some help. I can't figure out why my box will not boot. Lilo says > uncompressing image and just hangs there. I tried using the backup > kernel and no luck there either. > I grabbed a Knoppix disc and got into the box. I believe if I mount > the partition /dev/hda1 where the kernel and such lives, I should be > able to type something like chroot /mnt/hda1 as I have already > mounted /dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 and if typing chroot and the /mnt/ > hda1, I can get into an environment where I should be able to rerun > lilo. > I tried this, but no joy. Has anyone any suggestions as to what I can > do or if I am doing something wrong with the chroot command? I can > only attribute this problem of not being able to boot based on the > fact I recently ran aptget dist-upgrade and then I took the box down > to pain my office and upon restarting the box, it would not boot. > Any advice at this point appreciated. I'd rather avoid reinstalling > everything, but will do so if there's no out. I would gladdly do this > and stick with Sarge if that's what I have to do. Gee and how well > things were going...grin > > tnx > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
