Help! Linux won't boot and my nephew is coming for dinner!

[ron.peterson at yellowbank.com (Ron Peterson)]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Bill Horne wrote:

> Derek Martin wrote:
>
> > >Bill Horne wrote:
>
> > > I don't know how to get LILO to integrate the 2.2.14 and 2.2.16 versions.
> >
> > Boot from your floppy.  Then try:
> >
> >   # ln -sf System.map-2.2.16-3BOOT System.map
> >   # /sbin/lilo
> >
> > This assumes that your kernel is actually vmlinuz-2.2.16-3BOOT, which
> > seems likely based on the above.
>
> I tried it: it produces the same result as when the symbolic link is set to the 2.2.14
> system map:
>
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
> Merging with /boot/boot.b
> First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature

After booting from floppy, where are you mounting your root filesystem?
You'll probably need to pass lilo it's -r option, so that it does a chroot
to that location.

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