Adam
I run SuSE 6.2 on a laptop with NT. I use the NT boot manager and when I change my LILO configuration I get the same problem. This occurs because I keep forgetting to copy the boot sector from my LILO boot partition to a file that NT Loader can read. When I forget to to this I get exactly the same response as you (Lil-) from LILO. To save the boot sector to a file for NT I do the following
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/mnt/ntc/linux.cnt bs=512 count=1
Where /dev/hda3 is the partition LILO is booting from and /mnt/ntc/linux.cnt is the file in the root of the NT boot partition.
Hope this helps
Regards
Tony Sale
Adam Bower adamb@thebowery.co.uk on 30/01/2000 11:53:35
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Subject: [alug] Debian/Potato/Lilo/VMware problem
Hi guys,
As per my subject I may or may not have a big problem with my Box at the mo. I recently installed VMware 2.0Beta to use my hda1 partition with win98 on.(the reason I did this is that 1.1.2 vmware's networking caused kernel problems) Anyway everything worked fine but after an apt-get update/upgrade in the past few days the boot loader has stopped working in the Virtual Machine Lilo outputs Lil- .
Now my question is that when I did the apt-get update/upgrade I noticed that I downloaded a new lilo that replaced my boot loader now has this totally screwed my Lilo config and means that If I reboot my machine It won't work? If so how do I create the necessary rescue disks and prepare for the worst? If I run lilo now it claims that all is well even with the verbose options. Can somebody give me some pointers as to what the problem is? as this may be a problem with the VMware Beta, but of course I don't want to reboot my machine if it isn't.
Adamb
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