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

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 17:36:28 EST

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"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.

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