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[elmarsa dice <elmarsadice AT yahoo.com>]

Steve,

One more thing I did was to dd the mbr to a floppy and
rebooted with it.  The floppy rebooted to the point
where the busybox line came up and then showed a
permanent sleep note.  



--- 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"?
> 
> > 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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elmarsa

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