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Article #4439Re: new to LINUX
From: Lo�c JAOUEN
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 00:00
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George Williams a �crit dans le message <01bd821d$16b0f440$c8301b26@zeus>...
>Hello all,
>
> I am new to LINUX, and I had a small HD that I installed REDHAT 5.0 on,
>and now I have upgraded it to a lrger one. My question is I did an FDISK
>on the old HD and then went to install DOS, it installed dos just fine, but
>when I go to start the sytem up I get a prompt that says LILO boot: and
>thenit goes through a bunch of stuff and says that it is loading LINUX,
>then it stops and says UNABLEto open an initial console.
Try that:
fdisk /mbr
I'm not sure, I never tried because I never installed LILO (I still boot
with a bootdisk) but I've been told it works.
"MBR" should means Master Boot and the "R" something.
Anyway, try but with no guaranty.
Lo�c (loic.jaouen@hol.fr).
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