How to install lilo to the MBR?

[Eric "Shubes"]

joe wrote:
> .
> While I appreciate all the suggestions that PLUG friends have 
> offered, I am still stuck with no solution to the subject issue. 
> 
> So, I am going to begin preparing a recap, as concise as possible, 
> the essential facts pertaining to this problem on a web page with 
> ongoing updates and links to applicable exhibits until some solution 
> can be found.

Good.

> To begin, I've placed a screen-capture jpg of a qtparted chart
> of my system's primary hard drive at this URL:
> 
>     http://www.fixaim.com/temp/partitions.jpg

That is helpful.
As TMH mentioned, the Active flag is on hda5 looks suspicious.
What is contained on hda5?

> Since we do know that LILO was previously able to boot the hda6
> partition on which my main Linux system resides, I cannot understand
> why it would not be possible to reinstall that exact same LILO someplace
> where it can once again do the exact same thing that it had been doing
> successfully for months before simply booting Windows apparently blew
> it away yesterday morning.

Again, according to the documentation I'm reading (The Linux Cookbook), 
the /boot directory (I presume of the "host" OS) must reside on a 
*primary* partition. That leads me to believe that some other boot 
loader (bootmagic, for instance) was handling the stage 1 processing, 
and chaining to lilo for stage 2.

> Thanks again to all who have tried to offer help. 
> 
> joe at actionline.com -- 480-325-5055 
> 
I'll call you shortly after I do a little more research.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'