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I can't get Linux to boot up off of the hard drive using LILO.  Whenever I
try, LILO goes LBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB.... with an endless string of B's. DOes
anyone have any idea how to fix this.  To boot right now, I have to use a boot
floppy created with make zBoot.  (no LILO booting) I tried installing LILO on
a floppy and the same thing happens, but the LILO included on the Slackware
boot disks works fine.  

My system:
Pentium 90 24 meg of RAM
NCR 810 scsi adapter (int 9)
Disk 0: (scsi id 0)
   1 meg Boot manager  (sda1)
   100 meg DOS (sda2) (fat)
   60 meg OS/2 2.11 (sda5) (hpfs)
   60 meg OS/2 Warp (sda6) (hpfs)
   300 meg hpfs data (sda7)
Disk 1: (scsi id 1)
   50 meg fat data (sdb1)
   120 meg Linux Native (sdb5)

I tried installing LILO to the master boot record (I didn't care about boot
manager at the time), I tried the root sector and pointing the Bootmanager to
the linux partition, I tried a floppy.  All yeild the same results.  

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
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Chemical Engineering and Computer Science Major
Northeastern University in Boston, Mass.                       Go OS/2

: I can't get Linux to boot up off of the hard drive using LILO.  Whenever I
: try, LILO goes LBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB.... with an endless string of B's. DOes
: My system:
: Pentium 90 24 meg of RAM
  ^^^^^^^^^^
Maybe LILO does a floating point divide somewhere... :)

Sorry, couldn't resist...

Craig.  (I'll stop wasting bandwidth now... :) )

Quote:>I can't get Linux to boot up off of the hard drive using LILO.  Whenever I
>try, LILO goes LBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB.... with an endless string of B's.

I've that happen too.  The fix is to restore the Master Boot Record.
You can do that by booting dos from a floppy, and running (if I
remember correctly):

        fdisk /mbr

Then re-install LILO, but not in the Master Boot Record.

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