New Debian Install - HELP!

[Steve Holmes]

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Well, things are even worse now.  In trying to isolate my problem, I
took out the new drive that I was installing linux on and replaced it
with my original (second drive) which had my old working slackware on
it and I still can't boot.  With my original drive, I even did a lilo
- -r /mnt from my slackware CD and that appeared to go fine; I can't say
I've ever experienced this kind of problem before.  I'm trying to do
everything to avoid having to completely re-install windows.  I
unfortunately need windows on my box for some time yet.  For whatever
reason, my MBR won't take the loader or won't boot for me.

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:32:08PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 03:55:44AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
> > The solution is to  
> > not chroot.  Instead, mount your boot partition under /boot or /mnt/boot  
> > and change your lilo.conf as needed temporarily.  Run something like:
> >
> > lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
> >
> > That should hopefully work, or at least give a useful error message.   
> 
> After you've got your lilo.conf setup the way you want, don't forget
> to do
> lilo -r /mnt
> to reinstall lilo.
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