Are you SURE that lilo (and not grub) is installed on /dev/hdc5 (check
that there is a line boot=/dev/hdc5 in your /etc/lilo.conf).
If this is the case, try to re-execute /sbin/lilo before make again an
image of the boot sector and copy it to your nt partition.
HTH
Flupke
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Andrea Celli wrote:
>
> I'va a strange problem with Mandrake-7.1.
>
> In my box i've installed several Linux distributions and
> win-NT.
> I use Nt-loader (in a dos partition) to choose operative System
> at boot time.
>
> Now, i've installed Mandrake-7.1 in a free partition,to test it
> before upgrade 7.0.
> I choose to install lilo in bootsector of mdk-7.1 partition
> Then I copied this sector in dos partition
> dd if=/dev/hdc5 of=/mnt/dos/BOOTSECT.M71 bs=512 count=1
> and added the usual line to boot.ini:
> C:\BOOTSECT.M71="Mandrake-7.1".
>
> This is the same procedure i followed many time and actually
> works to load Mandrake-7.0 and SuSE-6.4.
>
> It doesn't work to load mandrake-7.1 !
> If at boot, i choose mandrake-7.1 i've got only a black
> screen.
> I'm able to start others operative systems from boot.ini
> and mandrake-7.1 from boot-floppy.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> ciao, Andrea Celli
>
>
>
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