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Re: [Plug] boot problem: LIL- (SuSE; + NT; possibly from Anti-Virus)
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On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> In General, anytime that you're boot sector becomes corrupted in any way, LILO
> will
> fail to load, there are howtos that explain what it means when you only get so
> much of LILO
>
> The best way to remedy this is to boot from your emergency disk (We all have
> one, right?)
> and rerun lilo to recreate it's presence in teh MBR.
>
> Later-
> Kurt Telep
> kt25@drexel.edu
Another cause may be that your kernel is above cyl 1024? Have you setup
a small 20-30MB partition for /boot?
I haven't looked at the lilo documentation for a while now, but I'm pretty sure
that the 1024 limit is still in effect, having to do with bios limitations.
Tim
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