On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 04:22:15PM +0100, Peter Bartosch wrote: > > I have the same situation to Tam. Whenever I boot my PC, It only > > show " LI" and freeze. The different thing is I have only one disk ( > > 2GB) and all dedicated to linux. No other operating system inside. > > The /etc/lilo.conf content is > > boot=/dev/hda1 > ^--- > > you have to write "boot=/dev/hda" here -- lilo should be written into the > mba of the first drive not the first partition (which have no mba)
No, that's not correct. boot=/dev/hda1 is fine, as long as "mbr" or the standard MS-DOS boot code is in the master boot record, and the Linux partition is marked active. I suggest leaving the configuration file alone and just running /sbin/lilo again; that might fix it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org