I think your MBR is corupt are you using multiple disks ?
are you dualboting ? if yes the first try to repair with a dos diskette
fdisk command ....
fdisk /mbr
the try reinstalling lilo
if you have more then 1 disks try removing all except one with mandrake on
it ..
hope this helps
take care
Faisal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Farnes, Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 1:08 PM
Subject: [expert] Boot Error
> I was able to in install Mandrake 8.0 successfully. When it boots, the
> screen displays the letter 'L', then repeats the number 40 accross the
> screen. I am able to boot from a floppy but not from the hard drive.
>
> Computer info: 333Mhz HP Vectra VL, 10 GB Western Digital hard drive.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jay Farnes
>
>
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