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Jan 10th, 04, 11:37 PM
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I ran the install and everything went fine and I had lilo be the default boot loader, but it didnt write into the MBR? how can I write it into the mbr from the installation? Im trying to install arch 0.5
my partitions are as so: /ntfs / /home /swapspace I restarted and it went straight to Windows, using a program from Windows I was able to retrive my lilo.conf file it is as so: Code:
#
# /etc/lilo.conf
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boot=/dev/discs/disc0/disc
# This line often fixes L40 errors on bootup
# disk=/dev/discs/disc0/disc bios=0x80
default=arch
timeout=50
lba32
prompt
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=arch0.5
root=/dev/discs/disc0/part2
read-only
#other=/dev/discs/disc0/part1
# label=WindowsXP
# End of file
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Jan 11th, 04, 12:01 AM
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First off, your default is arch, but the only entry in there is arch0.5 (you may want to change one of those). That should not be the problem, however. To install to the MBR you should have boot=/dev/discs/disc0/disc, but you already have that... It didn't give any errors when you installed it, did it? So the only error I can see is the defaults messed up, and that may cause /sbin/lilo to fail (though I would doubt it). I'd boot up with the Arch CD, mount the partition, then edit lilo.conf to say:
Code:
default=arch0.5
timeout=50
lba32
prompt
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=arch0.5
root=/dev/discs/disc0/part2
read-only
Code:
# chroot /mnt /bin/bash Code:
# /sbin/lilo # exit # reboot
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