Hi: I am running sid and kernel 2.4.8. I had copied /bootsect.lnx into c:\ so that I would be given a choice to boot into NT or linux. After I installed kernel 2.4.8 and I chose linux, I would get LI and the machine would hang up. So whenever I used to linux I had to boot from a floppy disk.
I found in the /etc/lilo.conf that the first line was boot=/dev/sda2. The documentation gave me the impression that it should be /dev/sda. I thought this was the problem, so I changed to the line to read boot=/dev/sda, ran lilo, did dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/bootsect.lnx, bs=512 count=1. Now I find that when I boot up with no floppy disk, NT does not come up, instead it says it can't find a boot loader in the floppy, and it can't fint a boot load on the SCSI disk. Since I am not booting properly, I can't get into NT to copy the bootsect.lnx into C:\. I changed the line in lilo.conf back to boot=/dev/sda2, ran lilo, but I still have the same problem that I can't boot up into NT. Maybe the first line should be boot=/dev/sda and I should do dd if=/dev/sda of=/bootsect.lnx ? Any suggestion for safely recovering so that I can boot up into WIndows, and also chose linux from the menu rather than always use a floppy to boot into linux? Thanks. Sebastian. -- Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
