[linux-help] Re: Debian/apt guru required...

[Jeff Vian <jvian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If you were running RedHat I would say you might have told it to install on
the first sector of the boot partition.
Are you sure that at some point you might not have told it to install lilo
there?

And as Jesse said, don't feel dumb cause of that.  It happens to a lot of
us.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jesse Kaufman <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 8:37 PM
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Debian/apt guru required...


>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Jeremy King wrote:
>
> > The lilo.conf was set to boot off of hda2.  No wonder
> > it didn't like me.  Deleting the '2' solved my
> > problems.  lilo just installed, a reboot is now in
> > progress, and I'm sure glad you all wanted me to
> > explain my problem.  I still don't know why debian
> > couldn't configure lilo correctly from the start, but
> > it's working now.  In any case, thanks for the info
> > Tom--I'm sure I'll find it to be useful in the future.
>
> that IS kinda weird! : ^ )  atleast you got it going! and now we all know
> what to do if it happens to us!  (btw, no need to feel like a moron, that
> would've stumped me too!)
>
>
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