lilo boots only from floppy disk

[Boris Duerner <Marc.Duerner@student.shu.ac.uk>]

Hi,
I am having the problem suddenly that lilo wouldn't boot from MBR anymore, 
but only from floppy. I get the error message "No operating system found". I 
didn't get any errors when I re/installed lilo and so checked lilo that 
actually gets installed in the mbr:

# lilo

Added Linux *
Added LinuxOLD
Added Windows
# dd if=/dev/hda count=1 | strings | grep -i lilo

1+0 records in
1+0 records out
LILO

I have a windows partition on the disk so I booted into win and did a fdisk 
/mbr but still the same problem. I have a Gericom Notebook with six 
partitions (the linux ones being ext3):

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1        19    152586   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda2   *        20       800   6273382+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3           801      1438   5124735    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda4          1439      2432   7984305    5  Extended
/dev/hda5          1439      2000   4514233+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6          2001      2432   3470008+  83  Linux

This is my lilo.conf:

lba32
boot=/dev/hda
# compact
install=/boot/boot-menu.b
map=/boot/System.map-2.4.17-686
# password=tatercounter2000
delay=20
# message=/boot/bootmess.txt
	prompt
#	single-key
#	delay=100
#	timeout=100
# vga=ask
# vga=9
vga=extended
# append=""
default=Linux
initrd=/initrd.img

image=/vmlinuz
	label=Linux
	read-only
	root=/dev/hda5
#	restricted
#	alias=1

image=/vmlinuz.old
	label=LinuxOLD
	read-only
	root=/dev/hda5
	optional
#	restricted
#	alias=2


 other=/dev/hda3
	label=Windows
#	restricted
#	alias=3

Thanks in advance,
Marc


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