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)
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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
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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
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