> LILO is driving me nutty. I've been using linux for years and have never
> had a problem until the other day when I went to upgrade my kernel..
> kernel build went fine, but then I went to test boot it, and when
> running /sbin/lilo I got the following output:
> Added linux2.4.0test7 *
> Added linux2.4.1
> Added linux2.2.15
> Added failsafe
> Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature
> my partition table looks like:
> /dev/hda1 * 1 581 4666851 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 582 1247 5349645 85 Linux extended
> /dev/hda5 582 597 128488+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda6 598 1247 5221093+ 83 Linux
> and I only have the one IDE drive in this box. However, my partition
> table is a bit screwy, because the root partition is actually on
> /dev/hda6, since /dev/hda1 was originally a windows partition that I was
> able only able to get rid of recently, which, I assume, is probably the
> cause of this problem, since the last time I ran LILO, /dev/hda1 was a
> windows partition.
> My lilo.conf is pretty straight forward, with boot=/dev/hda and
> root=/dev/hda6. I have no problem booting my linux2.4.0test7 kernel,
> which was install in lilo before this problem occured, but since I can't
> get lilo to boot, I can't test my new kernel.. can anyone please help?
> the docs are totally unhelpful with this problem, just saying something
> about "maybe you've selected the wrong disk".
> -Ryan Anderson
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