[BL] install troubles----lilo

Mr Christopher Rose mrchrisrose at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 21 23:18:20 EDT 2004


It will boot from the floppy and lilo says that it has
installed, but then it will not work. I guess I may
have to yet repartition the drive again. However, my
version of BL3 is the Linux user download, not the win
download.



--- 3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Mr Christopher Rose wrote:
> >
> > Well, I managed to install BL3, however, I can
> only
> > boot from floppy. I keep trying to boot the hd,
> but 
> > it will not boot. 
> 
> Are you able to boot the HD partition using the
> floppy?
> If not, please say exactly what you are doing and
> what
> the result is.
> 
> If you are able to boot the HD partition using the
> floppy,
> what exactly does it say when you do:
> -------
> lilo -v
> -------
> 
> BTW, the reason I suggested making a DOS partition
> on
> the HD and booting from DOS was to avoid the
> problems
> with LILO (which is notorious for causing problems).
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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