> Your guru is broken. :-)
>
I did notice smoke wafting from his ears yesterday :-)
> At a guess, you simply neglected to install lilo and are trying to boot
> using what is left of lilo from a previous install. No, an install will
> not necessarily remove an old stale lilo from the MBR, if that is where
> it was installed to.
>
Ahhhh, I was not aware of that. Would an MS-DOS fdisk and
reformat remove the old LILO? The idea being that I could run the
RedHat install cleanly afterwards.
> I hope you made a boot floppy when you had the opportunity. Use it, and
> run lilo. Check for abort messages. Anything from lilo that doesn't
> start WARN and isn't
>
Nope ;-) I'm just playing around, so I skipped the boot floppy.
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Jeffrey R. Sunseri
Systems Analyst
Department of Information Technology
Mount Aloysius College
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
- Sherlock Holmes, "Scandal in Bohemia" (1892)
