Very Computer

I forced a disk scan
 touch /forcefsck
 echo -n '-c' /fsckoptions
and it all checked out OK.  Boots fine from a floppy.  Worked great
until
the upgrade.  Tried several re-installs and even modified my lilo.conf
file to force lilo to rewrite the mbr.  No luck.  Any ideas?

--- John

fdisk outout:
Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 33420
cylinders

device boot start end blocks id system
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 260 131008+ 83 Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 261 33420 16712640 5 Extended
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 261 780 262048+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 781 6875 3071848+ 83 Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 6876 33420 13378648+ 83 Linux

Disk  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 38792

cylinders Units = cylinders 0f 1008 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 1 38792 19551136+ 83 Linux

Lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" devfs=mount"
read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" devfs=mount failsafe"
read-only

other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe

Quote:> I upgraded from RH6.2 to Mandrake 8.1 and now the system will only boot
> from a floppy.  "L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40...".   AGH!

Quote:> and it all checked out OK.  Boots fine from a floppy.  Worked great
> until
> the upgrade.  Tried several re-installs and even modified my lilo.conf
> file to force lilo to rewrite the mbr.  No luck.  Any ideas?

Eric

I tried to uninstall/reinstall Lilo:
    dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
    shutdown & boot from floppy
    lilo -v
    L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40...AGH!

--- John