Re: lilo problem

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

LeVA wrote:

> When I run the 'lilo' command it says:
>
> "Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda6 doesn't have a valid boot signature"
>
> Ok, but what should I do now? How can I make a "valid boot signature" to 
> that partition? I have installed RH9 on it, and it seems it didn't create
> that onto that partition.
> How can I boot that partition then?
> It is a logical partition, not primary, but I toggled the Bootable flag 
> on it with cfdisk. Is this the problem?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Daniel

You need to either boot to /dev/hda6 with a boot disk, or chroot into
it and install grub or lilo to the first sector of the partition.

I don't know how grub works, but for lilo, just make sure you have

boot=/dev/hda6

-Robeto

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