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Problems booting into Linux

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Basically having issues booting into Linux, right before I would get to the lilo screen I now just get a bunch of 9's that display acorss my monitor. Anyone know what caused this or how to fix it? Thanks in advance.
 
Found this

There is something that changed with your computer, stuff like this doesn't usually happen spontaniously...

Did you upgrade a kernel, or run lilo or anything?
 
Yah I was using slack8.0 before and went to slack10. When i got to the lilo portion I just choose the same option as in the previous slack installation (well I think I did). How would I go about fixing this? Dont have a floppy drive on the comp so cant boot up with anything.
 
Try a live cdrom like Knoppix or whatnot. There are a few. Some are quite small (a few megs), but knoppix is so slick! 😛

mount the linux root partition to something like /mnt/harddrive
Then mount /boot if you have that seperate.

cd /mnt/harddrive
edit /mnt/harddrive/etc/lilo.conf
make sure that is nice,
chroot /mnt/harddrive
lilo

and then exit out of the chroot enviroment, unmount everything and then see if it reboots properly.
 
Hey thanks for all the help and info. Ill get to work on this soon as I get home. Dont remember seeing a rescue option on the slack cd's but Ill check it out while im d/l'ing knoppix

 
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