Francis,
if you did not install lilo to the MBR, linux will rely on the old MBR
that your hard drive still have on it.
i fthis active flag solution described by Wayne does work, then it shows
that you installed lilo to the boot sector of your active partition.
But linux is able to boot from a partition without the "active flag" set,
you just have to install lilo on the MBR of the first hard drive (this is
certainly what you should do since it does not cause troubles to other
systems and since you don't have anything else linux on this computer
...).
Tell us if you installed lilo, and where you installed it (MBR, boot
sector)
Tell us when you see this message:
bios checkup ==> message
bios checkup + lilo prompt ==>message
bios checkup + lilo prompt + kernel loading ==> message
???
hope this helps
-----Message d'origine-----
De: Wayne Pascoe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Date: mardi 19 janvier 1999 11:33
�: De Croes Francis
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Objet: Re: RED HAT install
With 5.1, just boot off of the rescue disk and run 'fdisk' from the
prompt.
Do a 'p' to print the partition. You should see a * next to the partition
you want to boot. If this is not there, do a 'a' to toggle bootable flag
and set that partition bootable. Try from there...
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