The suggestion was made under the guise that the info existing in the MBR is keeping the boot disk from working. Removing that roadblock would fix some things. That's just my interpretation :)
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, rpjday wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Mark Cooke wrote: > > > boot up with a dos boot disk at at the prompt enter: > > > > fdisk /mbr (this removed the master boot record, I tend to run fdisk /mbr 4 > > times, just in case) > > > > then boot with the linux boot disk and then rerun lilo: > > > > /sbin/lilo (reinstalls lilo) > > > > then fingers crossed.. ;-) > > why would you need to "fdisk /mbr" when you're just going to run > lilo again? lilo overwrites everything all of the boot code in > the mbr anyway. > > rday > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > -- -Statux _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
