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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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   | Ariel Biener                                            |
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