On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks to all who made suggestions for my LILO
> problem (it would not recognize the default label,
> i.e. it would not start after 5 seconds as set up
> in /etc/lilo.conf.
>
> I have tried all your suggestions with LILO, i.e. creating
> a /boot separate partition, placing it and/or / at the
> beginning of the drive, giving them different partitions types
> and/or names (/dev/hda1, /dev/hda5, ....).
>
> Eventually I just gave up. Now I have a system which still
> won't boot by itself, i.e. wait forever at the LILO prompt.
> If I just hit enter, or type linux, it boots fine, and MANDRAKE 7.1
> looks quite cool, actually.
I've just joined, so I missed this thread. I sat through another of these on a
laptop m.l., where lilo wouldn't boot, and he had to use a floppy. The answer
there turned out to be different guesses at where track zero, sector zero
actually was. Chos solved it that time.
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Regards,
Declan Moriarty
