L AA AA AA LILO Problem *jaz drive?*

[Brian Whitman <bwhitman netspace org>]

Howdy all, 

  I'm in a bit of a bind, and I sent this following message out to the
support folks at Redhat but I'd rather not wait out the weekend with a
dead computer when there might be an easy fix... basically, I want to get
back my MBR that Win95 put up there because the one LILO put up is not
working at all -- I get this 'L AA AA AA' repeating thing every time I
boot. I think it might have to do with the fact that I installed it on a
jaz drive, but the point is, I'd love to just get back to 'normal' for
now. So, how can I get rid of LILO when all I can do is run the install
program for 4.2? 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 23:17:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Whitman <bwhitman netspace org>
To: support redhat com

I tried to install 4.2 Linux today for the first time on my P.Pro 200,
which usually runs Windows 95. I decided to install the software on a Jaz
disk, which is controlled by an Adapted SCSI controller. I set up the
partitions on the jaz disk and set up LILO to run off of a disk (I didn't
want it to touch my hard drive at all...) -- I noticed the first problem
when it told me I was done and never asked me for a blank floppy to put
LILO on. I imagined it just wrote it to whatver floppy was in there at the
time. So it restarted and I let it go without putting my boot disk in and
it ran Win95 all fine. So I restarted again, this time with the floppy in
there, and the BIOS checked for the CD-ROM, the memory, the Floppy, and
then the screen said:

L AA AA AA AA

and it was adding more AAs every second or so. So I took out the disk,
restarted again, went back to Win95. I tried to install Linux again, this
time putting LILO on my Master Boot record. I imagined something was wrong
with putting it on a floppy. Now I restarted after install and all my
computer will do is 

L AA AA AA AA ... 

Now I am assuming that my copy of LILO is corrupted or for some reason
doens't work on my computer. That's fine, I can get anohter bootloader I
imagine--- but my question is... how do I get LILO out of there and get
back to running Win95? My hard drive is still all OK, I can get at it from
running an 'emergency disk', but I can't get it to boot anymore from the
hard drive because all it gives me is the L AA AA AA A.. thing. 




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