Re: Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda2 doesn't have a valid boot signature

[MJD <matthewjd@gmail.com>]

Maybe you could try grub.  I am running three different distributions, and windows, and GRUB has no problems.

On 10/11/05, Robert D. Crawford < rdc1x@comcast.net> wrote:

I get the above message when trying to run lilo after installing sarge
on a spare partition of my hdd.  Here is what I have done:

1.  Net install of sarge on hda2
2.  boot into sid on hda7
3.  added the following two lines to my lilo.conf file:
    other=/dev/hda2
    label="sarge"
4.  /sbin/lilo and got the above message
5.  google
6.  make sure the bootable flag is set
7.  mount /dev/hda2 mnt/ ; chroot mnt/
8.  /sbin/lilo
9.  exit
10. /sbin/lilo and the message remains

what am I forgetting here?

Thanks,

rdc

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Robert D. Crawford                                      rdc1x@comcast.net

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