LILO and Zone Alarm

[Rick Stevens]

Jon Glueckstein wrote:
> Problem resolved.
> 
> I had a few facts about the system incorrect in my original message. 
> Years ago, I had put Redhat 6.1 on the system, as I said.  I dual booted 
> RH 6.1 and Windows 98 using LILO.
> 
> I'm not the primary user of this computer, so I had forgotten what was 
> on it.  In November, I had upgraded to Fedora Core 1, and switched over 
> to GRUB.  The weird thing is, after installing the Zone Alarm firewall 
> for Windows 98, and rebooting, the letters "LI" came up as if LILO were 
> trying to load, and then the system froze.
> 
> After exchanging a few emails with Rick Stevens off-list, I think I 
> solved the problem.  All of the grub files in my /boot/grub directory 
> were fine.  I simply needed to execute
> grub-install /dev/hda
> to get everything working again.  Zone Alarm must have done something to 
> the MBR to confuse grub.
> 
> One more odd thing to note:  When I tried issuing the command
> grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda
> grub worked, but the grub menu didn't come up.  I had to run it in 
> command line mode.  I had to rerun grub-install without the 
> --root-directory switch to get it to use the menu.
> 
> Rick, thanks a lot for the help.

You're welcome.  Hmmm...--root-directory=/boot was wrong, eh?  I'll
have to look at that, but I'm glad you got it sorted out.
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