read the reply to your other thread. you installed grub on the first partition, not on the mbr. quite likely this over-wrote something essential to lilo.
you can now boot with a boot cd and chroot into your environmment (similar to what you did when installing). >From there you can fix either grub or lilo and all should be sweet. On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:45:00 -0600 reader wrote: > How can I get a real eyes on look at what is in the MBR. I'm trying > this: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 > > Running strings on the result shows a litte of it: > > strings mbr.img > LILO > LILOu)^h > `UUfP > fPYX > > I thought maybe it could be mounted so: > mkdir mbr > mount -o loop mbr.img mbr > > But mount wants to know what `type' filesystem it is. I tried a few > things but really didn't expect them to work like: > ext2 msdos minix iso9660 > > None worked of course. So can this be done? Any one know what > should be in there exactly and how to view it? > > What this is all about is that I'm not succeding in overwriting the > lilo code mbr by running `grub setup' > > The grub command succeeds but when I attempt to boot I still get a > crippled lilo response. By crippled I mean the dread: > Li . . . . Hang forever > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
