Re: Reg lilo.conf changed and system doesn't boot

SATHISH.J (sathish.j@tatainfotech.com)
Sun, 9 Sep 2001 10:44:33 +0530 (IST)


Hi,
Thanks fot the suggestion.
I tried that but it panics. Will I be able to change anything inside the
boot floppy after it has been made with 2.2.6 kernel so that I can boot
2.2.14.

Warm regs,
sathish

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Brian Gerst wrote:

> "SATHISH.J" wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Boot your 2.2.6 disk, and make a boot floppy from that. Put in the
> original disk and boot from the floppy. Check your lilo.conf and rerun
> lilo.
>
> --
>
> Brian Gerst
>

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