Re: MBR -- Getting tiresome. I really am sorry! (was Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR)

> went through, ("1+0 in, 1+0 out" etc) but made no difference to booting -- > still "Lil-" and system hangs. > My system _did_ work before -- honest!! Did you alter the bios settings for your hdisk at boot up? ... If you have auto hdd detection turn that on (as opposed to LBA or LARGE) .. It shou

Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

Please check to see that lilo has the right parameters for your harddisk Particularly the bits about Large, LBA ... --Jonathan > "Lil-" comes up on the screen and the system hangs > > (Just glad I have a recent kernel boot disk =) ) > > /boot/boot.hda doesn't exist. > > I have no WinNT instal

Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

On Sun, 10 May 1998, Tristan Day wrote: > Thanks to all for all the help and ideas, but it still won't work: here's > what has gone wrong: > 'lilo -u /dev/hda' says "boot sector of /dev/hda does not have a lilo > signature" > > 'lilo -u' runs fine and says that it has restored the original MBR

MBR -- Getting tiresome. I really am sorry! (was Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR)

The dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 went through, ("1+0 in, 1+0 out" etc) but made no difference to booting -- still "Lil-" and system hangs. also tried `lilo -U /dev/hda1' which seemed to work okay but didn't make any difference to bootup either. I also tried (treading dangero

Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

Sorry, that should have been: dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

Hi, > Here's a list of the files in /boot/ [snip] > boot.0301 [snip] Here is what the lilo manual says: --- LILO automatically makes backup copies when it overwrites boot sectors. They are named /boot/boot., with corresponding to the device number, e.g. 0300 is /dev/hda, 08

Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 01:23:48PM +0100, Tristan Day wrote: > Thanks to all for all the help and ideas, but it still won't work: here's > what has gone wrong: Can you state the problem again? I missed your earlier posts. > The DOS 'fdisk /MBR' ran with no errors, but made no difference to bootup

Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

Thanks to all for all the help and ideas, but it still won't work: here's what has gone wrong: The DOS 'fdisk /MBR' ran with no errors, but made no difference to bootup. 'lilo -u /dev/hda' says "boot sector of /dev/hda does not have a lilo signature" 'lilo -u' runs fine and says that it has rest