>
> > >Funny, rebooted the PC and it just says "LI" where I was expecting
> > "Starting MS-DOS..."
>
> > The "LI" comes from the hd MBR. Formatting a hard drive DOES NOT do
> > anything to the MBR unless you use the mbr switch when formatting. If you
> > need to boot from the hd with DOS, you need to overwrite the MBR with
> > "format /mbr" or something like that (see your DOS manual).
> >
> > >Booted off the boot disk, well I can access my C: drive - a start.
> > Starting ScanDisk, it
> > >found 1 Bad cluster. I wonder if Linux can install over the bad cluster?
>
> didn't catch the beginning of the thread.
I did'nt either, however LI means;
The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map
installer.
Possable causes. windows was installed on another partition, when using dos
fdisk for large drives you get an option about support for large drive
saying yes here alters the BIOS settings.
Use the installation bootdisk to start up, at the LILO prompt type 'mount
root=/dev/hdxx where xx is the drive partition.
rerun lilo, if at boottime it still wont boot, go into the setup and changew
the bios settings to 'auto', thats what i had to do. It might not work for
you tho'.
>
> when just LI comes sometimes means that you rebuilt the kernel but didn't
> reinstall lilo after the rebuilt.
> like "make bzlilo"
>
> Also another problem can be that you may the cmos virus checker on and it
> can find lilo as a virus in the mbr sector.
>
>
>
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Regards Richard.
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