Re: System won't boot, "lilo.conf" problem
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 04:22:15PM +0100, Peter Bartosch wrote:
> > I have the same situation to Tam. Whenever I boot my PC, It only
> > show " LI" and freeze. The different thing is I have only one disk (
> > 2GB) and all dedicated to linux. No other operating system inside.
> > The /etc/lilo.conf content is
> > boot=/dev/hda1
> ^---
>
> you have to write "boot=/dev/hda" here -- lilo should be written into the
> mba of the first drive not the first partition (which have no mba)
No, that's not correct. boot=/dev/hda1 is fine, as long as "mbr" or
the standard MS-DOS boot code is in the master boot record, and the Linux
partition is marked active.
I suggest leaving the configuration file alone and just running /sbin/lilo
again; that might fix it.
Hamish
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