[ale] I'm making errors with LILO

[tfreeman]

On Wed, 22 May 1996, Andrew Newton wrote:

> >From my limited understanding of the problem, when you get just "LI" that
> means the first part of the LILO loader is having problems loading the
> second part of LILO.  Hence it might be that your MBR is corrupted.
> Being that this is all in the MBR, it should be at a
> very low head/cylindery/sector number on you hard disk and I wouldn't think
> that a big disk with large cyclinder counts would come in to play just
> yet.
> 
> At any rate, it takes only five minutes to run DOS's fdisk with the /mbr
> switch and then to reinstall LILO.  And if that works, it sure beats
> repartitioning and reinstalling everything.

Sorry - that was my first idea. I've already tried it. 8-(.