Re: IBM & LILO

["Robert Threet" <rthreet@cstonesystems.com>]

Thanks.  You're most likely right. I forgot to mark the boot sector active
so I switched over to another vt and set it active (I know!  I know!). 
I'll reload the RPM. Would it kill my system to run DOS's FDISK /MBR first?
 I've heard that'll help if you've FUBAR'd your boot sector.

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> From: Matthew P Walker <mwalker@silug.org>
> To: silug-discuss@silug.org
> Subject: Re: IBM & LILO
> Date: Friday, November 07, 1997 6:23 AM
> 
> 
> sounds like lilo didn't install properly...  I've had this happen myself
> and I heard someone else having the problem just the last meeting.  I
don't
> remember how I ended up fixing the problem (I think I reinstalled -- it
was
> a long time ago), but you might be able to just reinstall LILO's rpm
> 
> BTW, (hate to mention this, but...) it can sometimes be related to
slightly
> incompatible hardware/setup... for instance I knew someone who was trying
> to boot of (forgive me if I'm wrong -- can't remember exactly) the second
> partition on the 3rd SCSI hard drive, had a slightly incompatible scsi
> card, and they were getting that.


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