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Re: Start up problem
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Randy Goldenberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 29 Dec 2000 23:30:32 -0800
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On Friday December 29, 2000, R Paddock wrote:

> I read in a linux book about start messaages and
> errors that 'LILO' means that every part of LILO has
> been loaded successfully and 'LI' means "The second
> step has been invoked but could not be started.This
> can be due to faulty disk geometry or to moving
> /boot/boot.b without reinstalling LILO"

Copy fdisk to your boot disk, and run "fdisk /mbr". That
will overwrite LILO. If you still have problems reading the
c: drive you probably have a corrupted partition table,
which might be restorable from the backup copy.

HTH,

R.

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