[lug] KRUD 6.1 password for lilo?

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Mon Dec 13 08:04:11 MST 1999


>>>>> "Lamar" == Lamar Zabielski <zeb at utalk.org> writes:

Lamar> Anybody know it? Moot now. Had to find a linux with a boot 3.5
Lamar> disk to overwrite it. Mandrake 6.0 did it.

Lamar> KRUD loaded fine, looked good on the LCD laptop, but when I
Lamar> repowered it, it asked for a password to get the dual boot lilo
Lamar> choice to work, I ended up loading Mandrake to over-write the
Lamar> lilo boot file, it worked, got Mandrake now at low res, and
Lamar> win98 back. oops.

There shouldn't be any password set by default. Did you set one
yourself in lilo.conf after the install? 

To get around something like this, you could boot a rescue floppy and
mount your hd / partition and look in lilo.conf. The password (if set)
should be in there. 

Lamar> Lamar

kevin
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