Re: SuSE not booting from MBR

PACO.ML wrote:

>----- Mensaje Original -----
>De: Alastair Calderwood <[email protected]>
>Fecha: Miercoles, Noviembre 20, 2002 11:58 pm
>Asunto: [alice] SuSE not booting from MBR
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>>Hello all,
>>
>>I have installed SuSE in a partition with Windows, and 
>>successfully 
>>configured lilo.conf in the MBR to offer a menu at startup.  The 
>>problem 
>>is that before the menu appears, the PC (a laptop) asks for a 
>>bootable 
>>CD-ROM and will not display the menu without it.  The BIOS has 
>>been set 
>>to ignore the CD-ROM drive on booting but the problem still 
>>occurs, as 
>>though Linux has not finished installing.  I have to keep the SuSE 
>>installation CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive when booting so that I can 
>>choose the option "Boot Installed OS", which then brings up the 
>>LILO 
>>menu as normal.  Clearly the BIOS settings are somehow overridden.
>>
>>Any help or solution would be highly appreciated.
>>
>>Alastair Calderwood
>>Software Engineer
>>Cipherware Ltd.
>>http://www.cipherware.com
>>
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>>Do you run /sbin/lilo after booting with the recovery cd ?
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>  Yes, I have run /sbin/lilo after booting and the LILO menu itself works fine.  It is correctly installed in the MBR.  The problem is that to get to the LILO menu, I have to boot with the recovery CD.  I shall run /sbin/lilo again now and let you know what happens.
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