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LILO crash



According to the LILO README, When booting and only the letters LI appear, the
problem could be a "...geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without
running the map installer".

Did you build a new kernel and then failed to rerun /sbin/lilo?

-Chuck


On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Well, LILO did it again. Every time I boot I get <LI> and a cursor, and
> that's it: no Win and no Linux. All utilities for reviving my MBR I've
> found on the Net seem to involve loosing all my data ... Can anyone
> suggest some way of getting out of this fix ? Are there any good
> free utils, considering that I still want Windows to be my primary
> system for now ? Thanks, 
> 
> Pijus 
> 
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