Re: tlug: Lilo hosed

["Howard R. Abbey" <hrabbey@example.com>]

In mail on Re: tlug: Lilo hosed, Rex Walters (rex@example.com) wrote:
> >>>>> Jonathan Byrne writes:  (on 02 Nov 98)
> 
> >                    /dev/hda never had this problem until I installed a
> > TurboLinux J beta on /dev/hdd (which has nothing but the beta on it), and
> > then LILO was sick and the head count was getting reported as 0.

> Sounds like the TL beta mucked with the first few sectors on hda
> (contains the mbr and partitioning info).
> 
> You're definitely well into the twisty passages here.  ...

Indulge me please.  Before entering this 'twisty passage' unplug the
IDE cable from hdd, and see if lilo still has fits.  I really find
it hard to believe / scary that an install would mess with the mbr
of hda.

		mata ne

                        Howard Abbey
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