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

[Bill Horne]

Thanks for reading this: I've got a bootup problem, and need help fast.

I'm upgrading from 2.2.14 to 2.2.16, and after doing the RPM's I ran
LILO.  I left out the initrd parm in lilo.conf (on the new kernel), and
now the boot halts with a LIL- error. The book says I moved the map
table.

Now, the complicated part: I have a SCSI disk, running on an Adaptec
2940 card. When I try to run the RedHat rescue option with the CD, it
thinks for a second, says it's loading the AIC7XXX driver, and then
dies. I don't have a boot floppy.

My nephew - to whom I gave a long lecture about backups and not fooling
around with my sister's wintel box and always asking for help if he
didn't know what he was doing - will be here today for the "end of
summer" party. I'll never hear the end of it if he finds out. Never.

Short of reinstalling, what are my options?

Bill Horne
781 784-7287



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