Sounds like a borked disk to me. Or maybe memory. Tom
Norman Walsh wrote: > > 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 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
