[ale] Lilo

Vernard Martin vernard at cc.gatech.edu
Wed Jul 29 12:51:47 EDT 1998


> When I boot up the lilo message doesn't appear, but if I press TAB then I
> get a prompt that says:
> 1FA:
> and I can't type anything.
> Any Idea to as what is wrong.

Haven't seen that particular error message before But I have had LILO stop
working for me in some fashion anytime I swap my hard drives around. Especiall
the one that is the active partition. Also, if you do any WinXX installations
on the machine it will overwrite the MBR which will erase LILO as well.

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