Re: Hardisk will not boot

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From: Victor A. Grinberg
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 00:00

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Neil Rickert wrote:

> Keep a boot floppy handy.  If you ever defrag your DOS partition, LILO
> will fail until you rerun '/sbin/lilo'.

If you mark the kernel image file on FAT partition
System/Hidden/Read-Only (under DOS), then DOS defrag will not touch it,
and you won't have to rerun LILO after defragging in DOS.

> The point of all of the above is to keep everything needed during
> boot in the first 1023 cylinders.

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From: "Victor A. Grinberg" <victor@ccs.neu.edu>
Subject: Re: Hardisk will not boot
Date: 1997/09/11
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