[NTLUG:Discuss] LILO: no signature found

[Dennis Daupert]

I recently upgraded SuSE 7.2 to 8.0. Well, tried to update.

Last year I had updated from SuSE 7.0 to 7.2, and the whole
installation was smooth as snot.

But this time, not.

The installation went fine, SuSE recognized my partitions, saw
ther was a Red Hat root partition as well (I boot into Red Hat from
a floppy), and gave me a choice of which partition to declare as
root. When finished, it did its auto reboot, and things looked good.

But after a power-down, attempt to boot into linux gives the msg:

LILO: no signature found

A second attempted update reinstallation produced the same result.

I went in under rescue mode, looked around, noticed that in /boot
partition the vmlinuz file had a timestamp of last year. There was a
new vmlinuz.suse. I edited lilo.conf to point to vmlinuz.suse, but
again LILO found no signature.

Help? What else do I need to look at?

/dennis

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