Re: IBM & LILO

[Matthew Walker <mwalker@silug.org>]

That will probably help... I think I had a problem until I did that and 
reinstalled (LILO)

On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Robert Threet wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
> ----------
> > 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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