Hi, I am having a problem booting to a Compaq LTE5200 laptop. It has been runnning linux for almost two years until yesterday when I decided to try to upgrade it using a bootable CD. Since it did not seem to boot from the CD, I thought I might make it happen by modifying /etc/lilo.conf.
Here's what I have /dev/hda1 400+M ext2 /opt /dev/hda2 1.6+G Extented /dev/hda5 80M swap /dev/hda6 1.6+G ext2 / *bootdisk /dev/hda1 used to have Windows98, but was reformatted to accommondate more linux applications, and is not bootable. (This was done more than one month ago.) But /etc/lilo.conf still has this windows information up until yesterday, so I thought I'd modify it and try to add /dev/hdb and see if that makes CDROM a bootable device. After reboot, the first message displays reads 120 MHz Pentium Processor External Cache: 256K Enabled Invalid partition table I tried to boot from a rootless diskette (floppy module and CDROM module share the same drive bay), and run lilo from there, but there an error message returning that said: # lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf -b /dev/hda6 -i /mnt/boot.boot.b Ignoring entry 'root' Ignoring entry 'install' First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature The /etc/lilo.conf looks like this: boot = /dev/hda compact timeout = 1 prompt vga = normal read-only map = /boot/map install = /boot/boot.p image = /boot/vmlinuz lable = linux root = /dev/hda6 I am at my wit's end. As far as I can tell, everything looks fine. Mounting /dev/hda6 after booting from tomsrbt diskette shows that evrerything is still there. However, when I use Windows98 bootdisk to boot, and run fdisk from dos prompt, it shows that /dev/hda2 is not a bootable device, and there is no /dev/hda5 or /dev/hda6. I am not sure how the whole thing happened. Would appreciate any suggestion. Thanks! Best wishes, Chip
