On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:20:52PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: > > 1. i tried to install win98 to play games > 2. it decided it wouldn't get through the setup. locked 4 times. > 3. so, i put in my debian cd > 3. rescue root=/dev/hda5 > 4. it boots up, all good... > 5. login, re-run lilo > 6. lilo seems to work fine. > 7. i reboot > 8. I9990305 is all that apears where i expect to see: > MBR > LILO: > > 9. so i use the rescue disk again. i try loging in and doing fdisk /mbr, > it reports, unable to open mbr. uh, greeeaaaat.... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think (could be wrong) that "fdisk /mbr" is the syntax for the DOS version (which is why it works in the next step). You would get this message unless you had a hard disk device file named "mbr" in your / directory. Perhaps you should try "fdisk /dev/hda."
> 10. reboot using the win98 cd to dos. fdisk /mbr. it doesn't complain > 11. do the reboot, rescue, lilo thing again. > 12. stare at I9990305 again. Rob -- "It's a summons." "What's a summons?" "It means summon's in trouble." -- Rocky and Bullwinkle