LILO repair

Boot from the floppy and login as root
As root at the command prompt type
"lilo" <cr> (without quotes)
This asssumes the RedHat install setup /etc/lilo.conf properly
if it did not you will have to edit /etc/lilo.conf until the
lilo command runs without errors reported.
LOL,
Art Wagner


"Tilby, Lynn # PHX" wrote:
>
> I recently uptraded from RH 6.0 to RH 6.1 during the last step of the
> upgrade process I was asked something to the effect "Do you want to write
> the changes to your boot sector" or something like that.... I inadvertently
> chose not too.
>
> Well, now I can only boot from a floppy. It is as if part of the code for
> booting from the HD did not get written to the boot sector when I did the
> upgrade. When I try and boot from the HD the system goes part of the way
> through the boot process and hangs.
>
> How do I repair this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>

> Lynn P. Tilby (Lead Programmer/Analyst)
> National Data Corporation / Health Information Services
> Data Warehousing Solutions
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