Dunno what happened, but last night the system locked hard. So I rebooted.

Sez I "Boy, I gotta get reiser on everythign else.". But it gives me LIL-

And that's it.

So I said well, damn. I liloed a SCSI disk (extern, spare, the reiser test one), and somehow the IDE bootblock must have gotten messed up?

So I looks for my RH 7.0 disk. I can't find it. Find 2 &3, no 1.

Find Mandrake 7.0 boot. Which has more bugs than the amazon. Eh, ought to work for this. Nope. (Either that, or my disk is *really really* hosed).

Dig out a couple SCSI drives that have some flavor of Linux on them. Guess what? LILO errors on EVERY ONE OF THEM, too.

I hates it, really I do.

(I've reported a problem (lilo and SCSI) to the lilo dev mailing list, and Joanne Dow basically called me an idiot and said that the problems that I could reproduce at will didn't exist). (considering another version of lilo worked perfectly, (older one), I don't quite believe that.

Anyways.

So I guess 7.1 upgrade's going tonight, assuming I can get it downloaded/copied. $#^@*&^$@*&@#((*&@$

Addison

(And the config didn't make sense, when I last looked at it).

But yeah, if I's can get it booted, its likely LILO is toast.

Wait, what are you doing advocating GPLed software?

BAD SHILL! NO COOKIE!

Well, borrowed the RH 7.0 cd from work, (copied it, actually).

Came home. Booted "linux rescue". Mounted the /. (Rh 7.0 didn't bitch at all, none of the previous versions I tried would mount it... did they change something in mke2fs?).

chrooted a new shell to there. Took the scsi stuff out of lilo (referring to drives that were unhooked at the moment). Lilo'ed. Rebooted, works fine now.

?!?!?!??!?!!?!?

Argh.

(put copy of RH 7.0 into folder with disk 2 and 3)

Addison