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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Harddrive will not boot
  • Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:27:39 +1200

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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