Finally i have a nice working email service that i can use in collage(as you can tell from my email addy ;-).
I have messed about with the config file for lilo (/etc/lilo.conf). this was so that i could added my new kernel as the default for startup but now my Linux box just freeze after the time to select an option is up. It will boot up fine if i stop the countdown and select my option. Any one know what is wrong with this?
It seems to mount my hard disk drives in its freeze time as it checks my hard drives(with fsck) when i next boot it properly.
If you need to see my config file ill put it on my site and post a link to it, just mail me back and ask.
Dennis Dryden
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:45:09 GMT, Dryden wrote:
I have messed about with the config file for lilo (/etc/lilo.conf). this was so that i could added my new kernel as the default for startup but now my Linux box just freeze after the time to select an option is up. It will boot up fine if i stop the countdown and select my option. Any one know what is wrong with this?
Did you run the command, "lilo" after editing /etc/lilo.conf? If not, you'll find that it does indeed freeze when you try to boot from that option. Is the option you that selected the old kernel? If that's the case, just boot to the old kernel, run "lilo" and reboot. All should then be well.
Regards,
Martyn - who is playing with Grub at the moment..