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Article #4560Re: LILO help needed.
From: Root of all evil
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 00:00
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Computer Lab <@.> wrote: : hello, : I have recently purchased and installed a copy of redhat linux on : two CDROMs and I love it. I loved it so much I decided the 1.2 gig : Dardrive I had it on was not enough, so I went out and bought a new : 2.5gig for it. I wanted to give the old hard drive to a friend who uses : win95, so i did. : When he installed it on his machine he used fdisk on it and tried to : install win95, it installed fine, but when you rebooted it came up LILO : Boot and did not go any further. Please help me with this as I have : assured him that it would work but now I look like a fool cause I can : not make it work on his computer. : The hard drive is an old 1.2gig WD and it is pretty standard. I had : removed all of the linux stuff I put on it but it says it is still : looking for lilo to boot from. What do I do? : I would appreciate any help in this area, : Richard H. Strickler : rstrick@juno.com -- Easy to fix...use fdisk /mbr LILO will disappear at next bootup. Damage][nc.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11033e,164a29df23f0563a X-Google-Attributes: gid11033e,public From: Root of all evil <root@Damage][nc.> Subject: Re: LILO help needed. Date: 1997/12/04 Message-ID: <Z7th.43$hW2.247362@news3.atl.bellsouth.net> X-Deja-AN: 295167079 References: <347CA434.46A28D73@juno.com> NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 02:40:41 EST Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux