[techtalk] installation failure

[Deepa Karnad]

-----Original Message-----
From: BobTFish <bobtfish at freaks.screaming.net>
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Date: Thursday, May 18, 2000 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] installation failure


>
<snip>When you install linux you usually install a program called lilo. You
can
>install lilo either on the MBR or in a partition's boot sector.. Lilo knows
>about all your OSen and gives you a choice - For linux it loads the kernel
>directly and for other OSes it loads their partition boot sector.
>
>Your problem seems to be that you have installed lilo not on the MBR but on
>your linux partition's boot sector and the MBR isn't booting that
partition.
>
>What you need to do is to go into DOS, start fdisk and mark the linux
>partition as bootable and un-mark the DOS partition as bootable.. This will
>mean lilo gets executed and you can choose :)


Will try first thing tomorrow. Seems most likely that this could have
happened.


>(The bootable flag has nothing to do with if an OS is on that partition,
>just where the master boot record should go to...)
>
>
>Hope this is clear (ish) and helps
>
>BobTFish




That was more than clearish. And the theory is groovy. Thanx for taking time
out to write in such detail.
Deepa

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