DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: mkliloboot default install location

Ok, I'll see if using lilo -u does anything, and thn I'll see what I can do with the XP Cd and/or XP boot floppy, if I can't think of anything else then I guess I'll have to salvage any important files I can with DSL and send them by LAN(if I can get that working) to this comp(my parents) and then reinstall windows.

One more question, if lilo doesn't load, how can I boot into the HD install instead of the CD?

Thanks everyone for your help, I'll tell you what happens

What operating system was on the disk when you started?

Can you boot to either DSL or Windoze now from the HD?

Don't to anything drastic, your files are all still there.

How does "lilo -u" work? -

When lilo is installed on the disk it stores the previous boot sector (its very small) in a file called /boot/boot.0300 When you run "lilo -u" it reinstalls this code to the MBR of your hard drive.

I had XP installed originally, after that stopped booting I coul boot from lilo to dsl, but after doing fdisk /mbr it no longer loads lilo, but ries to boot windows automatically, and gets the corrupt dll message,

When I tried lilo -u from running from the cd it said something about needimg to configure a file

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