[plug] LILO, I mean LI

Jonathan Young jonathan at pcphix.com
Thu Feb 23 10:00:46 WST 2006


On 2/23/2006, "W.Kenworthy" <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>Usual cause is that lilo cant find part of the kernel on the disk.  lilo
>embeds a low level pointer to the kernel, so if you have made any
>changes it needs to update its information.
>
>'man lilo'
>'lilo -v'
>
>better fix, remove lilo and install grub.  A one time only 'pain' - lilo
>being a rolling one!
>

Thanks!

Two problems though:

(1) No LILO on the Live CD I've got.  Can I run it from the drive I am
trying to repair?

(2) I know not Grub!  (But I'm willing to learn.)

- Jonathan.



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