Re: Lilo..

[Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>]

On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 09:06:32AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> I still saw problems last weekend with mbr.b not being written to
> /dev/sda when installing frozen with the 04-11 boot-floppies. I
> did that by hand "dd if=/boot/mbr.b of=/dev/sda bs=444" and after that I
> could boot from the disk.
> 
> And yes, I did answer 'y' to the question "install a boot block" or
> whatever the exact message is.
> 
> Note that this only happens on a virgin disk or a disk that otherwise
> doesn't have any remains of a previous installation on it (e.g. dos; the
> dos primary bootstrap also works).

The "install a boot block" dialog takes the opposite action of what one
chooses (that is, if you want to install a boot block, answer "No").
It's a known bug, and has been fixed in boot-floppies_2.0.5 (04-26),
still stuck in Incoming. 

	Thanks,
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Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es


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