Re: lilo

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

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote:

> > I am having a problem. I had lilo set up and booting
> > fine, then xp on my main /dev/hda partition got
> > trashed and I had to reformat it and reinstall xp,
> > which wiped out the mbr. I am having trouble getting
> > lilo to redo the boot sector. Where does one get a
> > mbr.b file or how does it get created?

what exactly is the (uninterpretted) error messages ..

lilo does not need mbr.b ...
	- lilo creates boot.xxx and map files

what does "lilo -v" say ??

post your lilo.conf

> I think this documentation can help you:
> 
> http://xbox.plug.org.au/~steve/mbr.html

good job :-)

for more lilo fun
	linux-boot.net/Loaders

c ya
alvin