Problems booting into Linux

[Presence]

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.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Try reloading lilo.

How is it setup?

 

[drag]

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?

 

[Presence]

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.

 

[drag]

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.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Isn't there a rescue option on the Slackware cds?

 

[Presence]

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