Here's a HOW-TO that might help:   
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO-1.html

Also, you might check out several of the other LILO-related HOW-TOs at 
http://www.linuxdoc.org    (If you don't have this site already bookmarked, do 
it now.  This site extremely valuable.)
~M

Quoting "Michael  J. Schweppe" <michael@schweppe.org>:

> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:46:17 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> >Justin wrote:
> >> 
> >> Reboot w/ a Linux boot disk and go into rescue mode, mount your
> drives and
> >> run /sbin/lilo -v -v
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> >> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
> Michael
> >> J. Schweppe
> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:23 PM
> >> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> >> Subject: Re: lilo failed--HELP
> >> 
> >> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:10:46 -0700 (PDT), Matt Alexander
> <m@netpro.to>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >To restore the DOS MBR, type this at the command prompt:
> >> >
> >> >fdisk /mbr
> >> >
> >> I get the return of another A:\> with nothing.
> >> 
> >----------
> >wow - I believe that when your /boot oartutuib is on the slave drive,
> >you have to include something like bios=0x82 in lilo.conf -  you
> should
> >have seen a message flash by about this at the tail end of the
> install.
> 
> Messages go by pretty fast, couldn't tell you...
> 
> To recap, on the initial install, after the second cd was placed I
> stepped out of the room for an extended period of time.  This was a
> mistake because I missed the boot creation section, apparently Linux
> timed out and finished the install.  Hence no boot disk on round one.
> 
> After I got the fdisk /mbr sqaured away [I didn't know that after you
> issue the fdisk /mbr commmand that noting happens on the command line
> but that you reboot anyhow.  OK, so I'm back in Win and reinstall Red
> Hat.  Careful to pay close attention and make boot disk.  Reboot.
> Blah.  Same issue :-(.  After reboot I get the usual power up stuff,
> and then a flashing "L" with a non-responsive system.
> 
> Use boot disk to get Linux up.
> 
> Here is a copy of my /etc/lilo.conf
> 
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> linear  
> default=dos
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.2-2
>  label=linux
>  read-only
>  root=/dev/hdb8
> 
> other=/dev/hda1
>  optional
>  label=dos
>  
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
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