That makes a lot of sense. Now my next problem is to get the box back from the butchers. I wish I had asked for help here first before asking the shop to reexamine the cabling and HW settings. On 18 Jan 2003, Kirk Reiser wrote: > After looking through this thread, I would say that either lilo isn't > replacing it's boot record or mbr is not being put on sector 0. When > the system boots, sector 0 gets run which then calls another program > depending on whether you are using a boot manager like lilo or not. > Clearly that boot sector is not being run which can only mean a bad > drive sector or no mbr is present. I suspect it has to be one of > those things. > > If you have booted from a flopy then you need to use the chroot and -R > option of lilo to have it write a new boot record to the hard drive > instead of the floppy. You may be just rewriting the floppy's lilo > sector. > > Kirk > > -- The Moon is Full So visit me sometime at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
