Re: [Sheflug] Firewall set up.

["james bruce" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

looks to me like your master boot record is corrupted...

start again, only this time, run the command "FDISK /MBR" first... it should
just run the commmand, not launch fdisk or anything. if this works, try
installling smoothwall then.......

----- Original Message -----
From: "Barrie Bremner" <xxxxx [at] barriebremner.com>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 12:23 AM
Subject: [Sheflug] Firewall set up.


> >>>>> "richard" == richard davies <llewelyn.davies [at] eudoramail.com> writes:
>
>     richard> I'm having serious problems with setting up a
>     richard> firewall. Unlike Darrell I can't even get the smoothwall
>     richard> box to boot.  Trying to run Smoothwall 0.98 on a 486 DX66
>     richard> with 16 Meg RAM, 2.1 Gig harddrive, 3Com network cards.
>
>     richard> What I have done is boot from floppy and then proceed to
>     richard> a CD install as per instructions.
>
>     richard> The install has gone fine as far as I know.
>
>     richard> It has ejected the CD then run the setup program without
>     richard> any apparent problems recognising the network card with
>     richard> no problems but when it comes to reboot it hangs every
>     richard> time with
>
>     richard> LI 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>     richard> 00
>
> LILO bootloader doesn't like something.
>
> Were there any errors relating to LILO?
>
> The easiest (probably the only way) is to boot from a boot or rescue
> floppy and check the config in /etc/lilo.conf, rerun /sbin/lilo, and
> see how it goes.
>
> It might also be worth checking that at least one partition on the HDD
> is marked as bootable - fdisk.
>
> If you haven't got a boot disk - try tomsrtbt or (as I found out
> myself tonight..) GNU GRUB on a floppy. Check Freshmeat for both of
> those.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Baz.
>
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