Well, I'm back from last week. I had a version discrepancy with LILO. I still have not solved it. The exact error message that I get if I try to run LILO from the command line is:
"First boot sector is version 18. Expecting version 20." If I use the debian rescue disk and try the option there for making a hard disk bootable, it tells me: "LILO wasn't able to install" and then suggests it might be the more than 1023 cylinders explanation which isn't the case. In addition to what I tried previously, described below, I also tried booting to a DOS diskette and running "fdisk /mbr" thinking that maybe that would eliminate the old version of LILO but I still get just the same error messages. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Donald MacDougall ************************************************** On 9 Jul, To: debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: > On 9 Jul, Stephen Pitts wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 12:52:31PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I installed Debian Slink on a system that previously had a Caldera >>> system on it. Then when I attempted to run lilo I got an error message >>> that said something like "The first somethingorother is version 18. >>> Version 20 expected" and then lilo exits. Eventually I figured that >>> maybe I needed to uninstall lilo and then reinstall it. But when I >>> tried to reinstall I got the same message. Then I booted to the rescue >>> disk and tried to install lilo from there, but it says can't install >>> and gives a nondescript reason. Anyone know how I can clear this up? >>> >>> Donald MacDougall >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Please post the exact error messages. > > > Ok, I'll try to do that on Monday, I did this on my computer at home, > and now that I've done it I can't do email at home, so I sent it from > my office today, but my memory of the exact error messages had faded. > Naturally I didn't have the forethought to write it down last night. > Sorry about that, but, if I don't solve it over the weekend, I'll write > it down and ask again on Monday. > > Donald MacDougall > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
