Re: Lilo problem

[RAccess <pi@home.com>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Omar Shuja Siddiqui wrote:

> hi
> i have installed linux many times but there is just
> one problem that i am facing, that is writing lilo to
> the mbr. every time the installation is successful the
> lio prompt does not show up when the pc reboots , but
> it only comes up  with the boot floppy. how can i
> write lilo to the mbr as i donot want to start with
> the boot floppy.
>
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Make sure that your /boot is in the first 8.4gig of HD. This problem can
be solved by moving the /boot partition (hard) or by simply upgrading to
latest lilo, i.e. 21.* or newer.


RAccess
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