Ken....the asterisk in the boot column of the p option of fdisk really has no importance in Linux. The first line of the /etc/lilo.conf file controls where lilo gets installed (the below example shows lilo installed on the mbr): boot=/dev/hda if a number follows the a, like below: boot=/dev/hdaX then the X stands for the number of the partition (not the mbr) where lilo is installed. later in the file there is a line that reads: root=/dev/hdaX where X is the number of the partition that is to be mounted as the root partition of the filesystem. Also there are a series of lines indicating where files necessary to the boot process may be founnd in the mounted filesystem. map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b keytable=/boot/us.klt image=/boot/vmlinuz initrd=/boot/initrd.img So on your system, lilo must already be installed on the mbr or you wouldn't be getting the LI. But the LI indicates that it can't find a file necessary to the booting process, so the root= line needs to be correct as do the map=, install=, keytable=, image=, and initrd= lines. As root you need to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file and when you've got all these lines corrected then issue this command at a command line as root: /sbin/lilo This will write lilo to the partition indicated in the first line of /etc/lilo.conf with any changed information in /etc/lilo.conf included. After this you should be able to boot successfully from the hard drive. Alan Ken Archer wrote: > > I have Mandrake 7.0 installed and have to use a boot disk. Lilo stops with > "LI". I ran fdisk and it shows /dev/hda3 to be the bootable partition, but > /boot is on /dev/hda1. Can someone tell me how to flag hda1 as bootable > without messing up my installation? > > -- > Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 > Powered by Linux ++ Mailed by Kmail
