Re: Redhat install

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From: Kevin Huang Y.T.
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:00

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Sure, I think my lilo.conf is broken. When I boot up with the boodisk, I
go into the /root, ls, this is not a single file there... help! 
K.

On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Tarkaan wrote:

> Kevin Huang Y.T. wrote:
> > 
> >         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.
> 
> I had a similar issue.  Your lilo.conf is broken.  Try using /dev/hda2
> where you would put /dev/hda5 ...
> 
> And now I see why it's a bad idea to put linux anywhere in a newsgroup
> name...
> 
> -- Jack Tarkaan                                      Kalamazoo, Michigan
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From: "Kevin Huang Y.T." <huangyut@cse.msu.edu>
Subject: Re: Redhat install
Date: 1999/07/21
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