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Re: MBR problem



On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:00:38AM -0800, Punit Ahluwalia wrote:
> Thanks for the response. But I did dpkg -P lilo. yet, nothing chnages.
> 
This sounds like your BIOS is trying to boot the old LILO boot sector
rather than your grub boot sector.  Are you installing grub to the MBR
or to a partition?  If you are installing it to a partition, make sure
that your MBR is trying to boot that partition.

Is this a dual-boot windows thing?

> 
> --- Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Punit Ahluwalia wrote:
> > 
[...]
> > >with either of them. After the BIOS transfers the control, the
> > >screen displays a message
> > >"searching for the boot record : ok"  and then the letter "L" and
> > >then a series of number
> > >40 (40 40 40 ..). I don't know what is going on. I can boot from
> > >the floppy using kernel-2.2.20.
> > >  
> > >
> > lilo is still partially installed. You might want to "apt-get remove 
> > lilo" followed by "grub-install", but as I've only done it a time or 
> > two, I'm not sure of the exact steps, so you might want to wait to hear 
> > from others first.
> > 
[...]

-- 
Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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