[lug] Linux FileServer Problems

[Kevin Fenzi]

>>>>> "Michael" == "Pedersen, Michael J" <PederMJ at LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM> writes:

Michael> Okay, that's exactly what should have been
Michael> done. Unfortunately, it didn't fix it.  Use the mbr restore
Michael> utility from KRUD, and see if that can get rid of it.
Michael> Unfortunately, I've never found out how to make lilo write a
Michael> fresh mbr, so can't help you there.

It should write a fresh one everytime you run lilo...

It also makes a saved copy of the old MBR in (typically)
/boot/boot.NNNN (where NNNN is the device number). 

You can thus restore the old MBR (before lilo ran) with a:

dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1

That doesn't sound like the problem here, unless lilo installed only
onto a partition and not the MBR on that drive? Which did you specify?

Since you aren't even seeing a lilo prompt, it's not getting to the
point where it can read the MBR. 

I would play with bios options, and also move the drive to master
(hda) and see if that helps. 

kevin
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