You are running on Redhat right
Do one thing uninstall lilo with rpm.
Then go to dos partiion and rewrite mbr with fdisk /mbr.
Boot from floppy and from rpm install lilo again.
You will get what you want .
You can also configure lilo from linuxconf
Kunal
"divakaran u.m" wrote:
> hello,
> i have already tried running lilo. but it still remains the same.. it
> stops at LI.KIndly help me.. any of the big gurus
>
> regards
> divakaran
>
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Raghuram Vijapurapu wrote:
>
> > "divakaran u.m" wrote:
> > > i nstalled rh 5.2 on a 486 machine with 540mb hdd.
> > > i am able to boot with a floppy.
> > > but LILO is not loading prperly.
> > > it stops at LI. I read somewhere that if it stops at LI then prbably the
> > > disgeometry mismatch is there.
> > > where from does it take the diskgeometry.
> > > the diskparameters in the bios is same as those written on the hard disk..
> > > please advise me as to what i should do to solve this problem.
> >
> > Hi!!!
> >
> > As u r able to boot from floppy use the command 'lilo' at the command
> > prompt. this will rewrite the mbr with the newer lilo installed and try
> > booting up the system again I feel U r lilo will start without any
> > problem else the BIG Gurus on the list will help U up.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Raghuram Vijapurapu
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