Re: [TCLUG:6619] ones and zeros

["Chad C. Walstrom" <chewie@nerp.net>]

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, rgoldber wrote:

> I got a second hard drive for Linux and RedHat 6.0.  So I'm real
> happy. Lilo worked real nice before, but now if I install lilo, I
> don't get a prompt, but instead I get a never-ending string of
> alternation 0s and 1s (0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0).  Then windoze (read
> "video game os") won't even boot with disk until I fdisk /mbr.  
> So now I boot linux off floppy. This isn't a very big deal, but
> I'd like to know why it happens. Anybody seen it before?

No clue, man.  Which harddrive is your master on the primary?  Your
windows harddrive or your linux harddrive?  Well, whichever it is,
you're going to want to install LILO on the MBR boot sector of the
harddrive that is the primary master.

The lilo.conf "boot=" line should have something like "boot=/dev/hda"
or "boot=/dev/sda".  Rerun 'lilo' and try it again.  There's a very
good manual that comes with the lilo source (or package) called
Manual.txt.gz.  Check it out.  (It can be found in /usr/doc/lilo on
the Debian distro.)

^chewie

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