hi all,

i'm a newbie, and i'm having some trouble with LILO. i've got a dual boot, w/:

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hda (1 partition) win98

hdb1 /boot (specified bootable in fdisk)
hdb5 /root
hdb6 /usr
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i'm pretty sure i have lilo installed on hdb1, when i run lilo in a shell, i get the following....

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bash-2.05b# lilo
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Warning: /dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk
Added DOS *
Added Linux
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but when i restart my computer i get all 999999's, so i have to boot off a floppy. i'm guessing that this is because i don't have lilo installed on the master boot record (which is the first sector of hda, right?).

so my question is: how can i install lilo to the MBR (and will this harm win98)?

thanks for any advice,

When lilo spits out anything other than LILO: at you, it is an error message. I found a brief list of lilo error codes and posted it for you.

I would suggest that you upgrade to grub. It is a superior boot loader anyways and has worked for me on hardware that pisses off lilo.

Links
http://www.ipcop.org/1.3.0/en/instal...LO-errors.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-download.html

You will need to edit /etc/lilo.conf
and set the boot variable to /dev/hda
Once you have finished editing the file, at the command line, type: lilo

thanks, it's installed to hda now and working fine. btw, is there any way to tell it to use that nice blue gui instead of the command promt?

Yes.
In your /boot directory, you should have a file called message.
This file can be a PCX image file or a text file.
If the file is present, you can add the following line to your lilo.conf