[lug] LILO timeout & single user HELP!!

[Shannon Johnston]

It worked great! I was able to format the 1.72 on my 7.2 system just fine.

Thank you very much.

Shannon Johnston
nunar at nunar.com
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Hiroshima '45 Chernobyl '86 Windows '95

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On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 carl.wagner at level3.com wrote:

> Try Tom's root and boot.
> 
> http://www.toms.net/rb/
> 
> Although I am having problems getting it to create the disk
>  under RedHat 7.2. It gives me an error when it tries to 
> format at 1.72meg.
> 
> 
> tomsrtbt-1.7.361 $ ./fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
> Double-sided, 82 tracks, 21 sec/track. Total capacity 1722 kB.
> Formatting ... 
> ioctl(FDFMTTRK): Invalid argument
> 
> I haven't figured that one out yet.
> It did work under previous versions though.
> 
> Carl.
> 
> 
> Shannon Johnston wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > I've got a system that the shadow file has been removed, the lilo timeout
> > is 0, and it won't (for whatever reason) boot from the rescue disk.
> > 
> > Does anybody know how to interrupt lilo when the timeout is 0? I need to
> > get into this system. Or is there a place where I can make a generic boot
> > disk that can mount an ext2fs disk? The disk that I made from the system
> > isn't working.
> > 
> > Shannon Johnston
> > nunar at nunar.com
> > --------------------------------
> > 
> > Hiroshima '45 Chernobyl '86 Windows '95
> > 
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