I've installed lilo on several machines and it's always performed flawlessly until now. I have one machine, a Compaq desktop on which it gives "Block move error 0xAE" errors.
It used to be that it *always* gave this error, so I'd given up and installed BootMagic on it. I'm messing with that machine's configuration again and so I thought I'd give a recent lilo another try. A quick scan of google results on the block move error lead me to run 'fdisk /mbr' from the Windows partition, hoping that perhaps that would help. After reinstalling the DOS MBR, I booted linux off a floppy, moved the existing boot.xxx files out of /boot and re-ran lilo (regenerating a boot.0300 file, which I also thought might help). Upon rebooting, I get the LILO menu and when I select Linux, I get the block move error (which flashes past very quickly) then the boot menu again. Out of frustration, I wacked the enter key a bunch of times and to my stunned surprise, it succeeded on the fourth or fifth try. Color me confused. Can anyone suggest how I might fix this correctly, permanently? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sites disappear; others are created. http://nwalsh.com/ | That nasty little railway station, | devoid of taste and style, becomes an | element of beauty in the landscape | which first made it ugly.--R\'emy De | Gourmont