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[Michael Mikkelsen <mikk AT microbsys.com>]

I hope this is the right list to ask an install question:

the install for 701 goes fine.  I get to 3G (of the install doc), do the halt 
then restart.  on boot-up I get the bios message to insert a boot disk.

lilo, for some reason, is not creating the MBR.

I can't seem to find a the step in the installation documentation that 
mentions setting up lilo.

I rebooted with the cdrom, dropped to a shell (after "continue booting") and 
ran:
lilo -M /devices/ide0/target0/lun0/disc
(that may not be completely accurate since I used the bash "tab" feature of 
line completion to find the device (choosing 0 for buses/targets/luns)).

I also tried with part1 in place of disc.

Both result in the message "no active partition".

I'm sure that I'm just missing something obvious -- but I'm not familiar 
enought with SMGL's install to figure it out.  I was under the impression 
that lilo or grub would automatically run after configuring the kernel.  But 
that doesn't seem to be the case.

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA

-- 
Michael D. Mikkelsen
Micro Business Systems
Fresno Linux Users Group

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