Re: lilo issue
I understand what the MBR is, but it appears lilo expects there to be a file
in the /boot directory that contains what it will write to the MBR. Lilo
ends with an error saying /boot/MBR.b is missing.
Christopher J. Noyes
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Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 05:18 PM
Subject: Re: lilo issue
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:43:06PM -0500, Christopher J. Noyes wrote:
> > I am trying to resolve the issue I had with the Kernel panic issue
> > earlier. I think it had to do with a bad kernel install. I found the
> > installed kernel images that I want in /boot. I set up lilo.conf and
tried
> > to get it to write the MBR but it complains can't find /boot/MBR.b The
> > file is missing. Where do I find it. How is it generated. There is a
file
> > boot.b is that it?
>
> Not exactly sure what your mean. The Master Boot Record is a zone on the
> hard drive not a file, per se. It sounds like you are somehow telling
lilo
> to look for a file called MBR. You don't need to specify MBR for lilo to
> write to it.
>
> Can you flesh out the above with some more details ?
>
> GC
>
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