Lilo install to MBR fails

[RockMumbles]

So we can be sure how your hd is setup, boot into your system (from your floppy) and use the following command:

less /etc/fstab

you will see something like this:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <device> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hde7 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hde6 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,user,exec,gid=cdrom,umask=002,noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrw /cdrw iso9660 defaults,user,exec,gid=cdrom,umask=002,noauto,ro 0 0

Your system will be different, but notice from the info on my system that I would use the following in my /etc/lilo.conf file:
boot=/dev/hde #to write the boot sector to the mbr of my boot drive
root=/dev/hde7 #to tell lilo that the root partition (/) is at /dev/hde7

HTH

~rock

[rickenbacherus]

One hard drive partitioned, 25 gigs for linux, 1.5 gigs for swap and about 28 gigs unpartitioned space.

Windows is not installed on this comptuer...

I will give your ideas a shot though, see what I can get dug up, Too bad I couldn't just load the boot floppy that I've been using to the MBR.. that would be nice...

Then your lilo is wrong. Change:

root=/dev/hdb1

to

root=/dev/hda1

OR

root=/dev/hda2

-whichever partition you installed Knoppix to