Re: LILO Problems, Groan
On Aug 22, Paul Lange wrote
> Joy. I've installed Debian 1.3.1 fresh on a 486/66 with ~4 megs of ram.
> This machine is to be a router for home, but right after the install when I'm
> to reboot and see how my system goes, I get this as an error message when LILO
> won't load:
>
> 3FA:
>
> Yup. That's it. That on a line. Then, I booted from my boot disk, logged in
> as root, uninstalled lilo, reinstalled it, and got the same message when I
> rebooted. It doesn't even get to LILO. It stops right after it checks the
> floppy and gives the above informative message.
>
> Anybody have any ideas?
> --
> Paul Lange
> University of Texas ECE LRC Unix Services
> internet: pel@mail.utexas.edu
> web: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~pel
>
make the "boot" line in /etc/lilo.conf read
boot=/dev/hda - or sda for SCSI
and run lilo
alternatively, toggle the "bootable" flag on the partition that the "boot"
line points at.
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