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Alrighty... Just now, I updated my kernel to gentoo-source-2.6.11-r11. I ran make install, as usual. When it tried to re-install LILO, I received an error: Code: Should I run /sbin/lilo? ...
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  1. 06-17-2005 #1
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    LILO Is Not Working... *SOLVED*

    Alrighty...

    Just now, I updated my kernel to gentoo-source-2.6.11-r11. I ran make install, as usual. When it tried to re-install LILO, I received an error:

    Code:
    Should I run /sbin/lilo? (y/N) y
Warning: The boot sector and map file are on different disks.
Added Gentoo-2611-r9 *
Added Gentoo-2611-r8
Added Gentoo-2611-r6
Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda1 doesn't have a valid boot signature
There was a problem running /sbin/lilo.

Checking for SILO...No

Checking for PALO...No

Should I make a bootdisk? (y/N) n

WARNING: Your system is probably unbootable now.  After correcting any
problems, rerun this script with the command `mkboot -installkernel'.
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2
    I have never received this error before. My assumption is that it is here because I have recently uninstalled Windows, and therefore had my hda as a single, 60 GB ext3 partition.

    My main system is on hdb, by the way.


    Now then, I next tried making a small, 100 MB partition (as an ext2) and ensuring that its boot flag was set. Here is my output from "fdisk -l":

    Code:
    Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7294 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1           1        8001   83  Linux
/dev/hda2               2        7294    58581022+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1        1217     9775521    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb2   *        1218        1222       40162+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb3            1223        1466     1959930   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb4            1467       19457   144512707+  83  Linux
    So I dunno what I did wrong, but apparently, my computer is unbootable now. So if anyone can help, I would be very grateful.
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  2. 06-17-2005 #2
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    Could you post your lilo.conf file? And the output of
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    df -hT
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    I'm officially retarded...

    The problem was that I had left my Windows partition in my lilo.conf . After removed that section, all is well.


    Gagh.
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