[SOLVED] Newbie with LiLo issues on a light terminal

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I'm having trouble with a terminal that serves information from a remote database to my customers. I hope the terminal is tiny enough to qualify for this forum

The machine: A stripped down network terminal of unknown manufacture (model #: Light System). 400MHz processor, 256MB Ram, No HDD. Mass storage was a 1GB CF card at /dev/hdc1. OS seems to be a stripped down SuSE 2.4.x install. Bootloader is LiLo with boot options for Linux and memtest86.

The problem: Computer boots to LiLo boot menu, then returns the following about one second into loading linux.

Error 0x10

The computer then returns to the LiLo boot menu and the cycle repeats indefinately. If I break out of the timer and select the memtest86 option it runs the test program fine. If I manually boot linux it returns Error 0x10 and returns to the boot menu but does not loop.

What I've done so far: I am booting the machine using DSL 4.4.10 on a USB flash drive. I can mount and view the contents of the CF card without obvious issue. After some reading, I tried to rerun LiLo using:

mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1
chroot /mnt/hdc1 /bin/bash
/sbin/lilo

Trying to reboot from the CF card resulted in a repeat of the original problem.

Working on the assumption that the CF card had one or more faulty sectors (and hoping there wasn't a loss of important data) I copied the CF card to a separate flash drive at /dev/sdb1 using:

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
tar -cvf /mnt/sdb1/filename.tar /mnt/hdc1

The final result was the tar process completed with errors, but I didn't see what errors were displayed during the process. I used fdisk to check for additional partitions but there was only one.

I replaced the CF card with a new 4GB card and used fdisk to create the /dev/hdc1 partition and make the partition bootable. I then did

mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1
tar -xvf filename.tar /mnt/hdc1

After completing I did

chroot /mnt/hdc1 /bin/bash
/sbin/lilo

This results in

Warning: /etc/lilo.conf should be writable only for root
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exists disk scan bypassed
Added linux *
Added memtest86
3 warnings were issued

I tried booting from the CF card, but there was no bootloader at all. The machine ran through the CMOS startup process, then stopped. Obviously I've missed a critical step in creating the MBR but I don't know where. Running liloconfig returns command not found, and I don't know where else to look for the MBR

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Problem... not solved but no longer relevant. I stopped using a terminal through the GUI and started booting DSL in text-only (runlevel 2) and started seeing I/O errors in many places in the directory tree. I don't think I can salvage the application the terminal is intended to run. Thanks to everyone that looked at the original post and considered my problem.