weird booting ctrl-d thing
 

Ahh, the wonders that are computers.

Here is how it goes:

I accidentally destroyed my lilo.conf file. I used liloconfig to reconstruct it. I added the appends I originally wished to add. I later realized that they were unnecessary and removed them. After selecting to boot the 2.6.8 kernel I have on here, it boots fine, until it is almost completely through.

It does not automatically resolve dhcp. It prompts for a password for single-user mode (ctrl-d as the method of bypassing single-user and going into runlevel 2).

That is it. Really just a big annoyance not having dhcp automatically detected. The ctrl-d thing is also a bit out there, but not as bad as dhcp.


~Dave

PS Thanks everybody.

Hm. I dunno much about LILO. I would just use grub. Do 'apt-get install grub.' grub should know how to start linux correctly and if you add kernels or something you can update grub by simply typing update-grub as root.

Part of the difficulty that I had installing Debian initally was that I used the Sarge businesscard disks and it wanted to install grub. grub doesn't work for me at all. It wouldn't boot the system.

It seems to be fixed. liloconfig automagically labelled my linux partition as "Linux 1". I removed the "1" and reran lilo.