Re: L AA AA AA LILO Problem *jaz drive?*

[Hugo van der Kooij <Hugo van der Kooij caiw nl>]

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Brian Whitman wrote:

>   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? 

Reinstall Win95? Maybe fdisk /mbr may help you.

And installing on jazz with lilo is NOT a good idea at all. lilo needs a
very stable environment so if you change disks (like you are likely do
with a jazz drive you will hit some trouble unless you know exactly what
you are doing.

Hugo.

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