Re: lilo

[<cjnoyes@cjnoyessw.com>]

when I did lilo -z -M /dev/hda
it said
can't find /boot/mbr.b.

So I tried it with lilo -z -M /dev/hda /boot/boot.b
when it booted I got a LI prompt and it hung
There were two hidden files boot.300 and boot 3.08
which are basically the win boot sector, I tried them.

It worked before and I installed after windows Me was there and upgraded to
Windows XP fine with the lilo as boot loader.

Christopher J. Noyes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alvin Oga" <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>
To: "Sergio Basurto Juarez" <sbasurtoj@yahoo.com>
Cc: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; <cjnoyes@cjnoyessw.com>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: lilo


>
>
> 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
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