When I try to run lilo on my desktop I get the following errors:
Which has left me with having to boot from floppy.
Any help so I can boot from hd again appreciated
[root ~] lilo
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Added linux *
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Added failsafe
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Added 2218-8
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Added 240-5
Added Windows
Fatal: Partition entry not found.
** and the partition table according to fdisk is:
[root ~] fdisk /dev/hda -l
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 788 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 261 2096451 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 262 788 4233127+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 262 788 4233096 b Win95 FAT32
[root ~] fdisk /dev/hdc -l
Disk /dev/hdc: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 13328 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 13328 6297448+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdc5 1 10 4662 83 Linux
/dev/hdc6 11 2177 1023876 83 Linux
/dev/hdc7 2178 2454 130851 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdc8 2455 2670 102028+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc9 2671 2888 102973+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hdc10 2889 3971 511686 83 Linux
/dev/hdc11 3972 13328 4421151 83 Linux
This is a Mandrake 7.2 box. PII-450 128M
/dev/hdb is my zip drive, and /dev/hdd is my cd-rw
Brian D. Klar - CVE
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