Linux Booting Problem.

["Jose Pereira Van-Dunem" <jvd at ebonet.net>]

Hello all,

I had Red Hat Linux 7.1 installed on a PC. I choosed Lilo boot loader and
all was running fine !
Then i dicided to remove RH Linux 7.1 and install  RH Linux 7.3 with the
Grub boot loader on this same PC.
The installation process run well. After installation i tryied to reboot it
but i got the error message "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM". I only could
successful boot it using the boot disk i had made during the installation
process. Then i tryied to reinstall RH Linux 7.1 back again but when
rebooting i got the same error message "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM".
Now the only way to boot it is to use the boot disk for Linux 7.3!
I have already tryied to remove and reinstall Lilo (with no success) using
the commands:

/sbin/lilo  -u

but i got the error message "FATAL: Timestamp in boot sector of /dev/hda
differs from date of /boot/boot.0300"
So i tryied

/sbin/lilo  -U
/sbin/lilo

But when rebooting i still got the error message "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM".
So i tryied to reinstall lilo the following:

dd if=/boot/boot.0300  of=/dev/hda  bs=446  count=1

And i still got the error message "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM".

At last, I boot the PC using MS-DOS diskette. I  tryied to remove Lilo
running the  ms-dos FDISK command

fdisk /MBR

But i had no success  !

I need your help!
Thanks in advance !

Jose





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