RE: MBR Problem

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi doc

those silly lilo problems could be due to many possible reasons...

try each of the following...

- boot off floppy ( best bet )
	- boot into single user than run lilo again
	( if it fails..try more of the following experiments

- use a rescue disks and create a bootable floppy...
	( on a different pc....w/ cdrom for the debian cdrom

	dd if=/mnt/cdrom/path/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024k
	and see if the floppy boots

- vi /etc/lilo.conf
	...
	boot=/dev/hda1 		( assuming you have / here )
	...
	prompt
	timeout = 30
	...
	# add one or the other of the following option to see if it helps
	linear
	# lba32
	...
	image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2
	label=linux-2.4.2
	root=/dev/hda1 		( assuming you have / here )
	...

print the /usr/doc/lilo* docs if you can get any of the boxes
up and running... and/or read thru the various LILO howtos

have fun linuxing
alvin


On Sun, 13 May 2001, The Doc wrote:

> I tried
> 
> fdisk /mbr
> 
> and then reinstalled potato, installing lilo on /dev/hda1, not the MBR.
> 
> I still get that shit when I boot.