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Re: Power failure + UPS question = LILO question
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Meni Shy wrote:
> 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?
Can't you boot with a:
mount /dev/hd?? ro
(I am talking about a Slackware boot disk, which is very helpful sometimes)
Then after it boots up, run /sbin/lilo as usual.
--Ariel
>
> 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?
>
>
> 3. Toda
>
> Meni Shy, (meni@ard.huji.ac.il)
>
>
>
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