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Power failure + UPS question = LILO question



Meni Shy writes:
 > Ahalan ILUG
 > 
 > 1. due to a power supply failure my LILO does not work anymore. when
 >    booting from hard-disk all I get is LI on the screen and a lot of noise
 >    from the speaker. I tried booting from a diskette and do 
 >    'lilo -b /dev/hda' (lilo version 20) but it did not help.
 >    what should I do?

Boot from a rescue disk, run fsck on the hard disk, mount the hard
disk & run lilo.

 > 2. I have realized that I need a UPS, does anyone know one that will able
 >    automatic shutdown for linux? does any Unix UPS will be good?

See the UPS Howto.


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