RE: [PLUG] lilo prints "L" then dies..

[smr37 <smr37@drexel.edu>]

need to do a fdisk /mbr


>===== Original Message From gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net> =====
>On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:51:16PM -0400, kevin mudrick wrote:
>> A friend of mine installed debian (woody) today.  If he tries to boot,
>> lilo prints out an "L" and then craps out.  If he boots from the floppy
>> he made during the debian install, his system will start and give him a
>> command prompt and all.
>
>Sounds like improperly (or not at all) installed boot blocks in the
>MBR.
>
>Failing that, plausibly a disk labeling error.
>
>> It is a 20 gig drive.  /etc/lilo.conf has boot=/dev/hda indicating that
>> the system needs to read from the mbr, and /dev/hda1 is an 8 meg
>> partition (/boot) that has the kernel images, and is marked bootable.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>Have you actually run lilo, having booted off the floppy?
>
>(Not that that's a catch-all; it screws up some times.)
>
>--
>gabriel rosenkoetter
>gr@eclipsed.net
>
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