I don't know if this is any help... but I have NEVER gotten lilo to work on my computer... ever. It ALWAYS dies at LI just as you've descibed. On the other hand... where LILO has never succeeded... GRUB has NEVER failed. 8-) Before grub came along I was always booting linux using "loadlin" now finally I don't have to go to Linux through windows! 8-) On Thursday 23 November 2000 09:31, you wrote: > > All, > > I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.2 from the auto-install floppy for > replication. It is actually the same machine that initially installed from, > and I reboot and attempt the automated install. The auto-install appears to > run through smoothly. When I reboot is when the problem appears. The lilo > prompt is just "LI". I refered to the LILO docs and their explanation of > this error is as follows: > "The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, > but has failed to execute it. The can either be caused by a geometry > mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer." The > geometry mismatch doesn't seem to fit, because it is the exact same machine > with the exact same partitions. The second sounds more reasonable in that > perhaps the Mandrake installation application is forgetting to run the map > installer or is not installing the /boot/boot.b file. > > Any recommendations as to how to fix this would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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