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- From: v078jxag@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (TODD CARROZZI)
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- Subject: LILO and DOS
- Keywords: LILO DOS PROBLEMS
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- Date: 15 Aug 92 05:58:00 GMT
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- even cylinders, and not wanting to repartition my hard drives and reinstall
- everything, I patiently waited for Lilo to reach alpha 3 before I decided it
- was safe enough to use. I compiled it today and installed it with:
- lilo -b /dev/hda -i /etc/lilo/boot.b /etc/lilo/chain.b+/dev/hda1@/dev/hda
- /etc/Image
- That way it'll default to dos for now anyway, and I can boot into linux
- whenever. The problem is that it isn't working. If I leave it alone, it says
- "loading chain.b" then I get the dos non-system disk error. If I hit control,
- I do get the lilo boot prompt and it'll load linux fine. This seems to be
- really close to working, so I figured that someone will know something simple
- to make dos boot. I am running dos 5.0, linux .97-pl1, and lilo-alpha3.
- Other than that, lilo seems to be a great program- much more transparent than
- shoelace.
- Todd
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