On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 04:29:13PM -0600, Michael Glaser wrote: > Just for the hell of it, I booted with a Win95 boot disk and run fdisk > /mbr to write a new boot sector. After doing that I am now getting > the standard "Operating system is missing" error that > DOS/Windows displays when it cannot find a Win partition. I now > know that a new MBR had been written. Each time I have run either > lilo or grub-install, I still get the same message that appeared after > using the Windows boot disk to write the MBR. What does lilo say when run? Any error messages? > lilo.conf > ========================= > timeout=10 > default=linux > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > message=/boot/message > linear > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-7 > label=linux > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-7.img > read-only > root=/dev/hda2 > ========================= ^ This looks sane v This is useless :) > ========================= > /etc/fstab > ========================= > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > LABEL=/max1 /max1 ext3 defaults 1 2 > LABEL=/max2 /max2 ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu > 0 0 > ========================= > florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011029/2fb943df/attachment.pgp