From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) Subject: Re: LILO 6 says Illegal version of boot sector Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:37:07 GMT
In article <zxmsu01.722356960@studserv> zxmsu01@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Joost Schuur) writes:
> The bottom line is, my hard disk can't be made bootable at all, the way
> I did it a week befoe, even if I use the Image from 0.98pl1. I get
> the following error message:
>
> 'Boot Sector is version 4 expecting version 6'
This is probably caused by one of the following things:
- you don't have -i /etc/lilo/boot.b in /etc/lilo/install.
If you add this option, the boot sector is updated whenever
you update the map file.
- you don't have -b ... in /etc/lilo/install and your boot
sector is not at the beginning of your root partition, or
-b ... points to the wrong device.
- /etc/lilo/boot.b belongs to a different (*) LILO release than
/etc/lilo/lilo. Just update your /etc/lilo directory:
- go to the directory where your LILO source lives.
- make install
Now, running /etc/lilo/install should have the desired effect.
(*) different LILO releases typically use incompatible boot
sectors or map files.
- Werner
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