[Wylug-help] "Your system may not be bootable"

[Anne Wilson]

Maybe I dropped a real clanger this time :-)

I installed debian sarge with the default 2.4 kernel.  I have been 
having problems getting an application to work, despite being told that 
the config file is correct.  At that point I began to wonder whether it 
needed something from a 2.6 kernel.

I installed a 2.6 kernel, and during the install it remarked that I may 
wish to install lilo.  Since I'm familiar with lilo and not with grub, 
that seemed a good idea.  It went on to say that I should run 
liloconfig, then /sbin/lilo.  At the end of the config routine it said 
it had been unable to write the boot record to the MBR of hda1, and 
that my system may not be bootable.

I know from experience that running /sbin/lilo is necessary to activate 
any changes.  I haven't run it, but I don't know whether any pointer or 
whatever is going to tell it to try to load lilo instead of grub.

Is there any way to ensure that grub is used when I reboot?  I'm sure 
there must be, but don't know where to look.

Anne
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Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)
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