Trouble with the MBR

[Sirch Namdig <cjgidman@xxxxxxxxx>]

During my installation of Linux, the system crashed.
I don't know if this has anything to do with my boot
problem or not, but I'm passing it on as info.

Now, if I boot without a boot floppy, the system gets
to lilo and prints "LI" and stops.  Never to return.

If I boot with a boot floppy, I can log in and
function
normally.  (Or so it appears.)

I have run lilo several times with several different
options and nothing helps.  I was going to reinstall
Linux, but I can't even figure out how to do that.

It appears that lilo makes a copy of the current MBR
and merges it with the new boot record.  This would
seem to be a problem if the current boot record is
corrupt.

Any ideas that might be helpful?

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