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Article #3Re: Redhat install
From: catsoup57
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:00
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no, Ive got the same error, and im certainly not trying to uninstall lilo /etc/lilo.conf looks ok too, and lilo -v doesn't give much away... the usual "adding ..." then the error. In article <87vhbjymzo.fsf@pfaffben.user.msu.edu>, pfaffben@msu.edu wrote: > "Kevin Huang Y.T." <huangyut@cse.msu.edu> writes: > > I'm installing redhat on my AST J50 Laptop. Almost the end of the > installation, when I'm going through the step to install lilo, the system > returns this message: > First sector of /dev/hda5 doesn't have a valid boot signature. > > You are doing something wrong. The message above can only appear if > you are *uninstalling* LILO with the command `lilo -u'. There is no > way for it to appear when installing LILO. > -- > Regarding a Microsoft/Xerox agreement: > "This is a match made in heaven. > Both companies excel at copying other people's work." > --douglas@min.net <URL:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/05/16/2211252> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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