>>>rotbau wrote: >>> >>> Alright, I pulled a bone headed move. I upgraded my kernel and >>> somehow >>> munged the lilo command to update the MBR. >> Tom's root boot is your friend. http://www.toms.net/rb/download.html >> >> ---- >> The Wandering Dru <dru at druswanderings.net> >Note: to avoid this trouble in the future, ditch lilo in favor of grub. >Grub is cool. Grub will get you chicks. Tons of em. Thanks for the link to Tom's root boot and the advice on Grub. I am going to experiment with Tom's for future snafu's, as far as a boot loader that can rescue me from doing this again -- AND get me chicks, well I think that's a gimme. I don't know if GRUB runs on 7.3, but it is time to upgrade anyway. In the mean time I was lazy and went and booted to a later version of Linux rescue (RH 8.0). I created a simlink to the boot directory on my old system and then ran lilo to fix the problem. Intially I had problems booting into my system until I removed the mount statement for my secondary IDE drive from fstab. If you weren't following along earlier, my boot problem came from writing a boot record onto my IDE drive which I used for storage instead of my SCSI drive which actually contains the OS after upgrading the kernel. Opps. Now I just need to figure a way to remove that boot sig from the IDE - preferably w/o reformating it. I will post that question in a new thread. thanks for the help. rotbau _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list