On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:45:33 +0000 Declan Moriarty
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Was it Myles Green who wrote on Thursday 03 January 2002 05:12:
> > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:27:49 -0700
> 
> [snip]
> >
> > dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda  bs=446 count=1
> 
> Pardon a detail improvement, but I believe it actually is bs=512. This
> can be checked by simply doing ls -l /boot/boot.0300. The MBR is 512
> bytes long, so the memory creaks out.
> 

Before you try anything, first create a working lilo boot disk with your
existing and functional ilo.confby changing the root=/dev/hda to
root=/dev/fd0 and then /sbin/lio.  Verify that the boot disk works, then
make your attempts to modify the mbr.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
WWTLRD? - ELX-1 system k2.4.17+xfce+sylpheed
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