Re: lilo and mbr

From: Punit Ahluwalia (punit_a_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/17/04

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    Thanks for responding. But this is exactly what i am doing. I am booting off the boot
    floppy with my previous kernel.

    I guess my question is: Is there a way I can find out how the MBR is configured?

    --- Shaul Karl <shaulk@013.net> wrote:

    > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:34:14AM -0800, Punit Ahluwalia wrote:
    > > I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.7, and successfully booted with the new
    > > kernel once.
    > > However, I had to compile the kernel again, to include some additional
    > > support. I cannot
    > > boot after compiling and installing the kernel the second time. I
    > > received a message
    > > during the configuration that mbr.b was missing. I don't see it in
    > > /boot. On booting,
    > > numbers start rolling on the screen as soon as BIOS transfers the
    > > control. I suspect I
    > > have damaged the mbr. Any ideas?
    > >
    >
    >
    > You might want to boot with other means, such as floppy or cd. I don't
    > have the details for what to do afterwards but basically you need to
    > mount your Linux partitions, chroot to it and run lilo. If I am right
    > then you can have the missing details either by searching net or that
    > someone else will help you further.
    >

                    
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