Send (attach) your lilo.conf file in /etc/ and perhaps we can see what is wrong. Once repaired, you can simply re-run lilo and it will configure the mbr to boot any OS's you want to run from your hard drive.
tatah On Sunday 04 February 2001 17:59, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # All the computer says is: > # Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0... > # > # and it never finds it so it goes thru other options such as CD and > Floppy. > > This confirms what I originally thought; the MBR hasn't been > written(this is done by either LILO, GRUB, or any other boot loader). > > # No I have installed LILO. I have used lilo since I got to know Linux > which > # was around 1994. I thought of installing grub but I do not know how it > # works. The problem seems to be much earlier. My hard drive is 15GB. > > Oh, that makes things extremely odd. In that case, double-check that > /etc/lilo.conf is correct, and then run 'lilo'. Does it give you any > errors? > > David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay > Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-268-4074 http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.