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


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