Re: RedHat Install

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From: Hamish Moffatt
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 00:00

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Anthony Rumble (smilie@jolt.mpx.com.au) wrote:
: Thomas Hartley (tommyh@ecn.net.au) wrote:
: : The machine only gets as far as  * LI * then hangs. 
: B) I've found, that the LI problem happens when theres a problem with
:    the Partition table, usually from the partition table that came
:    from the manufacturer.. 
: 
: To fix it, I deleted all the partition with fdiskm, than ran
: MS-DOS's fdisk /MBR to re-create a whole new MBR/Part table..
: This time round.. it seemed to work

Ouch. You only need to reinstall LILO (ie run /sbin/lilo)
to fix this.


hamish
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Date: 1996/12/07
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