Almost had to format but.......

BajaNick · 04-04-2004, 10:26 PM

I installed a kernel update (not 2.6) and rebooted then got a black screen after LIlo and everytime I rebooted the same thing. I had no idea what to do so after posting my problem in the slack forum I ended up getting this reply from Linfreak.

Boot from the slack cd then at the command prompt type:
mkdir /slack
mount /dev [root partition] /slack
chroot /slack
lilo
then reboot

I did not know waht to do and This saved my install.
Thanks Linfreak and LinuxQuestions.org

vinay_s_s · 04-04-2004, 10:53 PM

can u post ur /etc/lilo.conf file ?

BajaNick · 04-06-2004, 01:04 AM

I can, but what would that do?

vinay_s_s · 04-06-2004, 11:56 AM

Well why dont u compile ur own kernel instead of binary packages.
U can optimise the kernel for ur machine.
And thus make it a bit faster.

BajaNick · 04-06-2004, 08:16 PM

I dont know much about Linux except that It runs much better than windows and everytime I try to upgrade or change the way something works in Linux I end up screwing things up so I think ill just leave it alone. Except for security ussues, im happy with the way it is.