On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote:
> For myself (I have a look-alike partitions table), I prefer > to boot with a floppy and rerun LILO on my MBR. You will > set it by replacing your boot line by boot=/dev/sda who > will write on your sda MBR, in place of /dev/sda2 who > would write on your partition. After that, just run lilo > when you're root. the Boot flag are only use in OS/2 or > MS-OSs at my knowledge. It's better to only have one set > because MS-DOS doesn't support multiple boot parts. I replaced line "boot=/dev/sda2" with "boot=/dev/sda" and now I've an endless loop that goes: LILO Loading Linux....... LILO Loading Linux....... LILO Loading Linux....... LILO Loading Linux....... LILO Loading Linux....... LILO Loading Linux....... with the seven dots. Pressing shift gives me the LILO boot: What should I try next to get the hard drive to boot the kernel on the second partition? I may have ruined it by writing a boot record onto the second partition. I really don't know what I've done. I made sure to check the second partition - it is set active/bootable. I'd made a typo earlier and ommited the star (*). Missing Linux, Charles