Re: Installing to the Boot sector

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm installing red hat 5.2 on my puter and the installation gets all the
> way up to installing LILO.  It askes me what partitions I want to include
> in my LILO boot, then when it goes to install it, it can't install the
> boot loader...  It just comes up with an error message saying it was
> unsuccesful.
> 
> This is all on one Ultra DMA fixed disk.
> Pentium2  233 overclocked to 290
> I have a NTFS partition, a fat16 partition, and my ext2 and swap
> partitions...

What size hard drive?  Do you have LBA BIOS?

Did you make a boot diskette when the installed ask?  Does it work?

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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