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

[Bill Horne]

Jerry Feldman wrote:

> I've upgraded and been in this situation. If you created a rescue disk, you
> should be able to easily correct this situation. If not, you can boot you
> install CD and fix your lilo.conf.
> I run SuSE, and there are 2 ways I can fix things like this by booting the
> installation CD:
> 1. Use one of the virtual terminals (alt-fn or ctl-alt-fn). Then you are
> running linux in the ram disk, and you can mount the boot and root disks.
> 2. Do and upgrade install, installing nothing. Once the install is complete
> you have some options to boot the installed system. You can fix your LILO
> at that time.

Jerry,

Thanks for the advice.

Unfortunately, I can't get to that point: no matter what I tell the
installation program (graphical, text,expert,rescue), it still abends trying to
load the AIC7XXX driver.

Does anyone know the "home" for these drivers? There may be an updated version,
or something I can put on a driver disk. TIA.

Bill Horne

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