[100335] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Failed installing LILO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Conner, Tom)
Thu Nov 19 23:24:03 1998
From: "Conner, Tom" <Tom.Conner@ssc.msu.edu>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 23:18:07 -0500
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Be careful. I had a similar problem in upgrading 5.1 to 5.2 from an ftp
site. Everything went well except the installation of LILO in the master
boot record. I too could start Linux from the boot floppy. But attempts to
rectify the situation did not work and the end result was that I could not
access the hard disk with the m.b.r. and could not undue the damage. I
ended up having to reinstall WIN95, which is a horrible and time consuming
experience and I lost things that are difficult to replace (like bookmarks
in Netscape).
Tom Conner
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> I have installed Redhat 5.1 on my system and the install went well,
> except for the LILO install. It gave me an error message saying there was
> a problem installing the bootloader. I then booted off of the install
> disks and chose rescue. I mounted my linux partition (I have a
> Win98/FAT32 partition and the Linux partition dual boot) on /dev/hda5 and
> I can access everything fine. So know I wonder, how do I manually install
> LILO? I am pretty much a Linux newbie so detailed info would be VERY
> helpful. Thanks to all.
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