> I recently apt-get updated my unstable box which broke > lilo. In my system, I have two hard disks. The first disk > is /dev/hda and has Win2k. The second disk is /dev/hdb > and has Debian unstable installed. I am assuming that > lilo should install to the MBR on /dev/hda, but I think it > is installing on /dev/hdb. The configuration of lilo from > apt-get doesn't give any choice of where to install the MBR. > I noticed this because I recently recompiled my kernel, > ran lilo, and rebooted. My new boot options were not > showing up at the lilo boot prompt. My lilo.conf is as > follows: > > boot=/dev/hdb1
<snip> > What do I need to change to get it to install to /dev/hda MBR? Is > it boot=/dev/hda1? According to "man lilo.conf", it should just be "boot=/dev/hda" << no partition number needed. Change it to that, re-run /sbin/lilo, and reboot. You do have a boot disk, right ?? ;-) Hall
