Re: disaster with LILO, Debian Linux, Windows, and booting

From: Spongebob (NadaSpam_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 01/17/05

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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:50:35 -0500

    I found what I think to be my real underlying problem. /boot/boot.b is
    missing. I found it in some old backups of /boot, but they're broken links.
    It seems this got messed up at least a few months ago.

    My system now boots, but I have no cdrom access. I booted from a rescue
    disk, de-installed lilo, and then re-installed it. It hasn't solved
    anything, though. /boot/boot.b is still missing. I read somewhere about
    /boot/mbr.b. I don't have that either (unless that's the same as boot.0300).

    Running lilo messes the system up again, and I have to run lilo from the
    rescue disk to fix it (though I'm not exactly sure why it works there,
    because within the rescue disk, I do:
    mount /dev/hda4 /mnt
    chroot /mnt
    /sbin/lilo
    which is the same lilo.)

    So is the missing /boot/boot.b my real problem? If so, how do I get it back. 

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