[plug] LILO - Timestamp mismatch ! Wot' I do !?!?

Brad Campbell brad at seme.com.au
Wed Jun 18 13:49:40 WST 2003


Craig Ringer wrote:
>> I can boot off the rescue disk, nothing apparently wrong with the hdds 
>> (100% SCSI btw, if that matters). I have done things like lilo -M 
>> /dev/sda to reinstall the MBR. I have downgraded to the 2.4.18 kernel 
>> but it still doesn't like it.  
> 
> 
> Strange - never seen it. My personal suggestion - try GRUB. After all, 
> you can always reinstall LILO if you need to, and GRUB is a good bit 
> less quirky in my experience.
> 
> Craig

I only very recently did an apt-get insall grub.
Especially for me as I'm testing about 10-20 kernel builds a day at the 
moment, GRUB has made life far easier.
It's only downside is it's size. Too big to use in any of my embeded 
projects, but on the devel machine it's a godsend.



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Brad....
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