LILO and dos partitions

["Kyle R. Hofmann" <rhofmann@crl.com>]

I'm installing Debian over what was formerly a Slackware partition (It's
been reformatted, thank goodness) and I'm stumped as to how I'm supposed
to get LILO to work with my dos partition.  Right now, my /etc/lilo.conf
is:

compact
boot=/dev/hda1
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
  label=linux
  root=/dev/hda2
  read-only
other=/dev/hda1
  label=dos
  table=/dev/hda
  loader=/boot/any_d.b

  I've tried chain.b for the dos partition, and chain.b with all the extra
junk in the 0.20 documentation (Is anyone working on updating the lilo deb
file to 0.20?).  Whever I attempt to boot the dos partition, I get a
screen filled with repetitions of "01 ".  Linux boots fine, and, using an
dos boot disk, I can find the dos file system.  Linux cannot find it; it
says that it can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem.

  On a related note, WTF is that "1FA:" thingy that I got when I tried to
reboot Debian for the first time?  It didn't want to do anything.  I
eventually rebooted and ran lilo, after which it worked fine unless I held
down shift early in the boot sequence (in which case I got the "1FA:"
thing for a moment, and then it went into LILO).

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