HI Stephen, You may be onto something here. This is what I did;
On my original try with Linux this go around I just disconnected my old HD and partitioned a new one, Installed Win98 on the first half and Linux on the second. Then I decided to slave them together. So I simply uninstalled Lilo. Now when booted to that HD it boots directly to my new Win98 install. I then slaved the two together. Both HD's (Maxtors) are set to CS. My old HD is in the master position and my new one is on the slave. I reinstalled Linux on the second HD (same partition only now it was a slave disk instead of master). Now Lilo was installed on my OLD HD and it set itself to boot to all three OS's (old Win98 on old HD - New Win98 on first partition new HD - and Linux on second HD). I did it this way just to see if Win98 would boot on a slaved drive. I had heard that it would not. Therefore both HD's were bootable. Now, would that have caused the problem I had? I shut the computer down and started it again today and it did it again so I just erased Lilo (through the CD again) Thanks Russ ----- Original Message ----- > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 03:15, Russ wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Shut down my computer last night and everything was just fine. Booted this > > morning and got an "L" followed by rows of " 01". I did make a boot disk but > > that was before I redid my system and now Linux is on the second disk, so > > obviously that didn't work (I'll have to redo it for my current system. > > Anyone mind pointing me to the correct spot and save me a little time > > hunting). So then I decided to pop in CD 1 and do something there (wasn't > > sure what but I was going to look around). Pressed F1 for more info and > > stumbled onto a function that repairs Lilo. I did it and it seems to be > > healthy again. Can anyone shed some light on why Lilo burped? > > > > Thanks > > Russ > > > > Almost every time I see that error it has to do with something causing > your /boot partition from being the active partition. I usually fix it > with a Win98 boot disk and FDISK to reset the active partition - then > after reboot, works like a charm.
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