lilo failed--HELP

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Author: Craig White
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Subject: lilo failed--HELP
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:
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Michael
> J. Schweppe
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:23 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: lilo failed--HELP
>
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:10:46 -0700 (PDT), Matt Alexander <>
> wrote:
>
> >To restore the DOS MBR, type this at the command prompt:
> >
> >fdisk /mbr
> >
> I get the return of another A:\> with nothing.
>

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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.

Craig