"Julian Easterling" wrote: >I went back and reinstalled Debian and switched the partitions around. Now I >get a different "error" but it doesn't accept any input and the only way to >boot the system is with the boot floppy now. Originally the swap partition >was first but named /hda2(?) and the Linux partition was /hda1 and the end. >I went back and changed the partitions so that the Linux partition was first >and called /hda1 and the swap partition was at the end. The 'message' I get >is "LI" and that is it. I looked at my lilo.conf file and it is listed >below: >boot=/dev/hda >install=/boot/boot.b >map=/boot/map >compact >vga=normal >delay=20 >default=Linux >image=/vmlinuz >label=Linux >root=/dev/hda1 >read-only ><<EOF>> >I am not sure what I am doing that is keeping the box from booting from the >hard drive. > After you change lilo.conf, you must run /sbin/lilo. Perhaps that did not get done.
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