Sorry to hear that.
I have never done this so I may be wrong, but I would now boot
from a dos diskette with dos version of fdisk and run "fdisk /mbr" a few
times. Then boot into linux and run /sbin/lilo.
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Good luck and best for the new millenium
Richard KHOO Guan Chen
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, bob jones wrote:
> Thanks in advance ....
>
> This posting is a followup to my earlier ones about /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> and my
> system's failure to run fsck after a power failure, and to omit normal
> shutdown
> messages. This aberration has been going on for a long time.
>
> A special thanks to Agustin Navarro, Todd Jacobs, Brian Feeny, and
> Richard KHOO
> for trying to help me resolve my problems. I tried almost all of what
> they suggested,
> but the system and my ignorance prevailed.
>
> Finally my system bootup deteriorated to the point that it would not
> boot to Linux (sdb1,sdb2,sdb3), although it would boot to MSW3.1 (sda1)
> and Dell-Unix (sda2), which are on a different hard drive from the one
> used
> for Linux. I suspected the Linux HD was going or gone, so I tried a
> reinstall as a last attempt to save the system.
>
> I booted from my boot floppy, re-installed from the RHL4.2 CD, allowed
> fdisk to reformat the Linux root partition (sdb1), and went through the
> normal install process. There were three surprises:
>
> 1. The hard drive seems ok, in that it took the reinstall and I can
> use it
> in text mode normally. (X is not working - that's problem #2)
> 2. The Linux home partition (sdb3) did not have its user files, even
> though
> I didn't format it. (but those are on my backup tape, so maybe
> that's ok)
> 3. The system still will only boot from a boot floppy. That's problem
> #1.
>
> I copied /etc/lilo.conf from my backup tape, ran lilo, and tried to
> boot from the hard drive: this failed. When I try to boot from the HD I
> get the normal boot messages and then "LI" on the console and it hangs
> there. It will still boot from a floppy though.
>
> I'm wondering about the MBR. The install process didn't talk to me about
> the MBR,
> and I didn't do anything about it, to my knowledge. Is that where my
> problem is?
> If so, how would I learn about MBR's and how to fix them?
>
> Ah, ignorance is not bliss.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> bob jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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