Lilo doesn't get written in MBR

4 Oct 2002

      Hi,

I'm trying to auto-install SuSE 8.0 keeping an existing Windows partition. The problem is that lilo doesn´t get written in the MBR although I specify the following configuration in the profile:

<bootloader>
   true
   true
   <activate config:type="boolean" >true</activate>
   <linear config:type="boolean" >false</linear>
   <location>mbr</location>
   <parameters></parameters>
</bootloader>

I get an error saying that lilo couldn't be written in the MBR. Is there anything wrong in my profile's bootloader configuration?

My second problem is that, although I set the "linear" tag to false, it gets written in the lilo.conf file. This causes an error when I run lilo because the "lba32" and "linear" tags are incompatible in the same lilo.conf file.

Can anyone help, please?

Regards,

Miguel Gómez Rodríguez
gomez@dit.upm.es