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Jerry,
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Red Hat Linux 8.0 comes with lilo ver. 21.4-4 installed. The latest Lilo version is 22.3.2 which I installed and used the -M option. Unfortunately it did not work. Thanks for all your help. Currently I'm using the boot up diskette to boot up, cumbersome but reliable.
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John
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On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 19:52, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>On 18 Jan 2003 19:23:36 -0500</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>"John J. Cruz" <casacruz@bellatlantic.net> wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Jerry,</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Thanks for your help. Tried your suggestion but did not work. By the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> way the option is lower case m and not upper case M. I've included my</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> lilo.conf in the hope that an error exist that I can correct.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>No it is an upper case M nor a lower case m.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>--------- From the man page</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> -m map-file</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> Use specified map file instead of the default.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> -M master-device [ mbr-file ]</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> Install a Master Boot Record on the device specified as</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>master-device. The new MBR is</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> copied by default from "mbr.b", which is built into</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>/sbin/lilo (version 22.3), unless a</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> specific file is named as the second argument. The</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>primary partition table on master-</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> device is undistrubed. If no device serial number is</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>present, then generate one and</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I> write it to the MBR.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>-----------</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>-- </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Boston Linux and Unix user group</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#1aa2f6"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9</FONT></FONT></I>
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