Re: Small faux pas with LILO

To: "Stephen Pitts" <smpitts@midsouth.rr.com>
Cc: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Small faux pas with LILO
From: "Kelly Lesperance" <mystery@MNSi.Net>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:04:46 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 006201beeb81$ee17d380$0100010a@dyns.cx>
References: <[🔎] 000f01beeb7a$1123f820$575e12cb@minotaur.bit.net.au> <[🔎] 004001beeb7b$bd57b860$0100010a@dyns.cx> <[🔎] 19990820213434.A9738@ender.midsouth.rr.com>

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the MBR is fine, the partition boot record
> is what's corrupted.

well, I don't think it's corrupt, LILO is just trying to load it as a ext2
partition, instead of a FAT partition.. if you overwrite the MBR with a DOS
one, Windows will load.

I guess an alternate method would be to boot to Linux with a floppy (Rescue
disk or something), and fix /etc/lilo.conf (now that I think of it, I
probably should have suggested that method first) :)

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- Small faux pas with LILO
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- Re: Small faux pas with LILO
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- Re: Small faux pas with LILO
  - From: Stephen Pitts <smpitts@midsouth.rr.com>

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