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Re: Can't boot with LILO (again)



===> Yaron writes on Jul 14, 11:17am :
===>
===> Subject : Can't boot with LILO (again)
==>
=>   Hi,
=> 
=> Installed a new BALAGAN server at work, Slackware 3.0, NFS installation
=> (which actually WORKED!), Linux 1.2.13. I told LILO to boot it off the MBR
=> (and later superblock), but it hangs after trying to FSCK saying something
=> about UMSDOS 12-BIT fat. When I boot from a floppy it loads OK, and FSCK
=> sees nothing wrong. I'd rather boot this system from the HDD though, any
=> ideas? 
=> 
=> And if you need more info, ASK for it, Marc.
=> 
=> 			Bye,
=> 
=> 				-Yaron.
=> 
=> 
==>
===> end of the message of Yaron.

Your /etc/fstab file proably has a bad line. This file holds the
file system list for the system.
fsck uses this file to check the file systems, a wrong line causes
it to look for some UMSDOS file system.

To correct, boot from the floppy and correct the /etc/fstab
ON THE ROOT PARTITION (not on the ramdisk the floppy creates).
do something like:
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
vi /mnt/etc/fstab


Gili