Re: Lilo..

[Bear Giles <bgiles@dimensional.com>]

> Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl> writes:
> > On Wed 29 Apr 1998, Enrique Zanardi 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.
> > 
> > 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).
> 
> I happened to have the same problem and found that the lilo.conf was
> wrong on my system. 
> 
> Maybe thats a general problem, but I don't want to reinstall my system 
> again to check if it was my or the systems error. Any voluntier?

I'll try it.  I installed hamm on a new disk a few days ago, but couldn't
get it to boot from the hard disk.  I remember looking at /etc/lilo.conf
I won't sacrifice that installation just yet :*), but I need to install 
Linux on two new virgin disks in the next few days.

Bear Giles
bear@coyotesong.com


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