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

[kevin mudrick <kevin@furhurts.com>]

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.

I did some searches online, but all suggestions require an error code
usually printed out after the "L".  Problem is, nothing else comes up :(

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?

Thanks,
Kevin

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