Re: LILO error?

[Aaron <aaron greyhour com>]

Since someone brought it up

I'm curious

what exactly does this all do?

now that I see it in print, i think my pal wound up doing the same thing (after using the rescue disk to examine his lilo.conf) and I never did know why fdisk the mbr helped (or why it needed it in the first place)


Aaron
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On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Ted Mektrakarn wrote:

> use an dos/windows boot disk
> 
> fdisk /mbr
> 
> Doug Graham wrote:
> 
> > I just finished another RH6.0 install but the system won't boot.  As soon as
> > the system starts to boot I get LI on the screen and then everything stops.
> >
> > I specified that LILO would be installed in the first partition.  But is
> > this some kind of MBR error?
> >
> > If yes, how do I get the MBR cleared?
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Doug
> >
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