Joe first wrote: >> ... I have tried all the remedies I could find on the 'net, including: >>         /sbin/lilo -v >> which produces the following response: >>   Unrecognized token "! Please edit /etc/lilo.conf before running lilo!" >>   at or above line 20 in file '/etc/lilo.conf' >> I checked /etc/lilo.conf on hda6 and it looks fine to me. >> Can't figure out what else to try. >> Any suggestions? Craig wrote: > boot from the D*mn small Linux cd and run " fdisk /dev/hda -l "and > view the partitions. They may have been renumbered - Partition Magic > is capable of changing things in ways that you may not anticipate. > > I think that you are going to have to chroot to the root directory > of your Linux installation and actually run lilo again (lilo -v) ---------------------------------------- Here is the result f fdisk /dev/hda -l Disk /dev/hda: 4099 MB, 4099866624 bytes 128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 993 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 419 993 2318400 5 Extended /dev/hda2 * 1 418 1685344+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda5 419 425 28192+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 426 764 1366816+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 765 898 540256+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 899 993 383008+ 82 Linux swap Partition table entries are not in disk order ---------------------------------------- I was unable to execute 'chroot' (don't know what syntax to use), so I used sudo passwd to get to root, mounted /mnt/hda6, cd'd to /mnt/hda5/root and typed: lilo -v ... But I still got the same error response.   Unrecognized token "! Please edit /etc/lilo.conf before running lilo!"   at or above line 20 in file '/etc/lilo.conf' What am I doing wrong? Where is the MBR? hda1? hda5? What is in each of those? joe --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss