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elmarsa dice wrote:
>
> I have installed BL3 from the 2 floppies and am
> able to start up again with fd 1 and the hd
> root=/dev/hda1 command.  

OK so far so good.

> I did the lilo drill and tried to reboot from the hda1 
> partition.  

Did you get any error messages when you did "lilo -v"?

> The problem is that all I see is a display of obviously 
> encoded symbols on the screen and then the cursor freezes.  

I suggest you edit /etc/lilo.conf and remove the # in front 
of the boot=/dev/hda  line.  Then run "lilo -v" again.  That 
will put lilo in the MBR and it should boot.

Cheers,
Steven

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