> On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Marco Frattola wrote: > > > I decided to try formatting and reinstalling again. Installation (via CDrom) > > was fast and painless, but it doesn't boot anyway. Now the message is not > > LIL- > > but 1AF: it doesn't seem to accept 1, but seems to like A or F better. > > What should I do? Pointers/suggestions are welcome. TIA > > When you made the partitions did you make the linux partition bootable? > > If linux is the only operating system on that drive you can try this: > > Insert the rescue diskette into the floppy drive. At the boot prompt type > > rescue root=<normal-root-device> > > After the system starts up, enter a root password and create your user > accounts if it asks for them then switch to another VC and log in as root, > > edit /etc/lilo.conf and look at the first line. If it has something like > boot=/dev/sda1 try changing that to /dev/sda and rerun lilo and then shut > down and reboot.
I did it and it worked, thanks. Now how come it put /dev/sda1 when I told it to put it into mbr? I have other machine with boot=/dev/sda1 that boot just fine -- || || ||||||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, Italy Microsoft is the question ||| ||| |||'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No" is the answer ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]