From: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
Date: 12/27/92


From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Subject: Re: [Q] How to change text video mode in SLS startup
Date: 27 Dec 1992 22:01:45 GMT

In article <1hhi0qINN5ce@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
> The boot sector in /vmlinux is ignored. Try `rdev -v /dev/hda -3' (or
> `rdev -v /dev/sda -3').

NO !!!

Doing such things may destroy your partition table.

The correct fix has already been posted: upgrade to LILO 0.7.

- Werner

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