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Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM



on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:27:38PM -0500, burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com (burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com) wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Postfix quoting and trim quotes, please, Glenn.
> 
> Ya, sorry. I fritzed. No excuse.
> 
> > You have to re-run 'lilo' for changes to take effect.  Have you?
> 
> Sure did. I am still getting the continuously-output "LI" running down the
> screen. I'm tempted to go with grub, but would *like* to know what's gone
> wrong with lilo to make it do this.

What happens if you change the boot stanza:

   boot=/dev/hda

...should work, particularly if you're not dual-booting.

You might also want to post output of:

    $ fdisk -l /dev/hda

Cheers.

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