Re: How to install LILO when can't boot LINUX ??

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From: Wal Chenney
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 00:00

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In message <337C8DAC.6E789E2@pobox.com> - Jason Allen <jallen@pobox.com>Sat,
17 May 1997 02:39:08 +1000 writes:
:>
:>Got my Redhat 4.1 CD and went through install process.
:>Some 50mins later and after installing LILO and rebooting PC the system
:>gets to the LILO word and then speaker contnually beeps and system won't
:>go any further.
:>
:>Obviously a setting wrong in LILO.  How can I boot LINUX now so that I
:>can go back and re-install LILO??
:>

I don't have Redhat but under Slackware you would boot from
a boot floopy and at the boot: prompt issue a command like
mount root=/dev/sda1
where /dev/sda1 is your hard disk root device then you
can edit /etc/lilo.conf

Hope this helps :-)

>//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>// Wal Chenney
>// Sydney, Australia
>// email: <walch03@ibm.net>
>

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Date: 1997/05/18
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