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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Yeah, I forgot to run lilo after I changed lilo.conf from install=/boot/boot-menu.b To install=menu.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org [<A HREF="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org">mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbvhPd27EkBTGA@public.gmane.orgerloo.ca</A>] </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: June 21, 2005 12:47 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Rescure - Debian LILO failure after upgraded to 3.1</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:42:07PM -0400, Phillip Qin wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I upgraded my debian from 3.0 to 3.1 sarge but I didn't upgrade the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> kernel to sarge's 2.4 kernel. I rebooted my server and all I see is LI </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> and beeps. Any thought on how to bring the system back?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Remember that due to lilo's silly map file (where it stores the location of the blocks of each file it uses) feature, you MUST run the lilo command after every change (such as upgrading lilo and/or installing a new kernel and/or updating lilo.conf).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>You probably upgraded lilo as part of upgrading the system. Had you updated the kernel it would have asked if you wanted to rerun lilo to update the lilo map files.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>With grub none of that is required of course. Probably part of why debian defaults to grub in 3.1 on new installs. update-grub is also a good reason.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Lennart Sorensen</FONT>
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