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

[billhorne at mediaone.net (Bill Horne)]

Ron Peterson wrote:

> 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.

Ron,

No joy: I entered

lilo -v -r <mount point of root partition on SCSI drive> -C /etc/lilo.conf

... and i got the error I mentioned.

The lilo.conf file shows /dev/hda as the boot drive, and all the usual options. I get the
"signature" error no matter what.

Must I reinstall?

Bill

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