[ale] My boot sector looks dead.

[Mike Kachline]

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On Fri, 01 Jan 1999, Ben Phillips wrote:
>No matter how many times I re-install LILO I still get LI at boot time, and
>nothing else.  I'm pretty sure the boot sector is trashed, but what's a
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	Ben,

	Given that you've got LILO installed in your boot sector, the way I've
always gotten through this problem is to boot my trusty DOS 6.22 boot disk and
"fdisk /mbr", then boot/root into Linux and re-install LILO. This won't blow
away your partitions, but it'll get rid of any defunct LILO in your MBR.

	<BTW. If anyone else knows of a good *linux* way to do "fdisk /mbr",
please post! I would really love to know. >

									- Mike
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Michael Kachline CS, Georgia Institute of Technlology
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