It is 'normal' that a windows after linux installation messes up your lilo bootloader state. Do fdisk /mbr on a windows command prompt and reboot to linux (using a rescue disk) after that configure your lilo.conf file to make lilo boot correctly and reinstall lilo
Also make sure your boot partition is within the 1024 cylinder limit (or was that sector, all confused i am) When do you receive this error ? It DOES start at cat bzImage or at boot ? Please specify ... J.L. -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Sarginson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:18 PM To: Andrea Vettorello Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LILO Problem On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:28:53PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Dale Morris wrote: > > > I'm having a problem with LILO. I have windows installed in the first > > partition on my hd but somehow have wiped out the mbr. I've also tried to > > compile the new 2.4 kernel, but am getting the following error: > > cat bzImage > /vmlinuz > > cp /usr/src/linux/System.map / > > if [ -x /sbin/lilo ]; then /sbin/lilo; else /etc/lilo/install; fi > > Fatal: open /dev/hda1: Device not configured > > make[1]: *** [zlilo] Error 1 > > make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' > > make: *** [bzlilo] Error 2 > > > > I've read the man page, but still am not having any luck. Thanks in advance. > > I can't give a big help here, but why not giving "grub" (the GRand Unified > Bootloader) a try. > I have used grub and it is simplicity itself to setup .. and very, very good. Cliff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]