Unable too run lilo due to /boot/boot.b not found

Tom Callahan callahant at tessco.com
Thu May 18 14:53:33 UTC 2006


> Hi,
>          I had to reinstall my RH9 in my dual boot system (other OS is
> WINXP). I am able to boot both WINXP and Linux from LILO. I had rebuilt my
> linux kernel
> and vmlinuz is getting installed in my /boot partition. Now after updating
> /etc/lilo.conf when I am running /sbin/lilo it says fatal error "unable to
> open /boot/boot.b"
> When ran lilo with verbose option it says that unable to merge with MBR or
> something like that. I don't have the /boot/boot.b in that location.
> Now how do I rewrite the MBR through lilo with config from /etc/lilo.conf?
> Any solution would be of great help.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Pranjal


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