[ale] I'm making errors with LILO

[tfreeman]

I'm suspicious that the "other" suggestion is correct: lilo doesn't 
handle big disk partitions well. I may try and repartition this weekend, 
but I'm not looking forward to reconfiguring _everything_ with a full 
re-install. I may need to find a non-lilo way to bring this puppy up as a 
linux box.

On Tue, 21 May 1996, Andrew Newton wrote:

> I just recently had this same problem on a machine.  I'm not sure of
> the technical aspects causing my problem or yours, but here's the fix
> I used.
> 
>    Under DOS run "fdisk /mbr" to return the master boot record to a
> 	   normal state
> 	Reinstall LILO to the master boot record.
> 
> If this doesn't work, I don't know what to do next.
> If it does work, thank Gareth Williams as he is the one the gave
> me the solution for my problem.
> 
> tfreeman wrote
> > 
> > 
> > I'm doing something grossly wrong here, and I hope somebody recognizes 
> > what I'm doing wrong. I made some hardware changes on my Linux/Windows 
> > box, and now lilo makes it to "LI" and hangs. I can still boot from a 
> > backup emergency floppy, but that is a little silly.
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> Andrew Newton
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> Andrew Newton
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