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[elmarsa dice <elmarsadice AT yahoo.com>]

Steven, 
Thanks for the reply, see below:                

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

> 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"?

No, the only message was that it would be in effect on
the next reboot.

> > 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.

Did that to get it to boot from the harddrive.  Also
did a man lilo and set up the lilo.conf file as
prescribed.  Also did a dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda
bs=446 count=1 on both hda1 and hda and re lilo'ed but
got the same results i.e. unreadable symbols and
frozen screen.  I did a vi of zimage and its encoded
but at the end there was some error comments.  Don't
know if that means anything.  I think maybe the zimage
file is corrupted or didn't get unzipped, although
somewhere I read that the image file needs to be
zipped on boot.  Well that's what I've done with this
and am stumped. Any further thoughts are appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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elmarsa

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