Quote Originally Posted by three eyes open
When I started up my Linux box a little while ago it wouldn't boot up! All I got was a black screen with the words "LILO_Mismatched Timestamp" in the upper left hand corner. I couldn't figure out how to boot it up so I booted Knoppix from the cd and tried to reinstall it. I didn't do anything different this time than when I installed Knoppix to my hard drive a few days ago but when I tried to boot up my freshly installed system, same thing, "LILO_Mismatched Timestamp". How do I fix this?

And can someone tell me how to use cfdisk correctly during the install? Like how to exit it after the partition table has been written? And how do you assign what each partition is for, like which one you mean to be the swap partition? I searched online and all I could find was info on what size the three basic partitions should be. I already knew that.

Dammit, it was just about perfect! I was planning to apt-get a few apps today and then it would have been perfect.
It's a bug with lilo you should be able to boot from the CD and mount the / partition and run LILO to write to the MBR. When booted from the CD open a console window and sudo mount /dev/hd?? /mnt/hd?? to mount the drive then sudo chroot /mnt/hd??/ /sbin/lilo -v to actually write LILO to the MBR of the drive. replace the ?? with the drive letter and partition number of the / partition.

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One package you should install when you get it running is apt-listbugs that where I seen this no more than a hour ago when I upgraded.
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