[ILUG] "unexpected EOF"

[John P . Looney]

 Anyone ever get that when they tried to boot off a dos partition ? Here's
my lilo.conf & fdisk output:

[root at minbar /root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
#vga=ask
image=/boot/vmlinuz
    label=linux
    read-only
    root=/dev/hde1
        append="ide2=0xd800,0xdc00"
image=/dev/hda3
      label=dos

[root at minbar /root]# fdisk  -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             1        17    136521   83  Linux
/dev/hda3   *        18        81    514080    6  FAT16
/dev/hda4            82       784   5646847+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5            82       212   1052226    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6           213       408   1574338+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda7           418       499    658633+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8           500       581    658633+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9           582       784   1630566   83  Linux
[root at minbar /root]# fdisk  -l /dev/hde

Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1650 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hde1   *         1         7     56196   83  Linux
/dev/hde2             8      1650  13197397+   5  Extended
/dev/hde5             8       390   3076416   83  Linux
/dev/hde6           391       429    313236    6  FAT16
/dev/hde7           430       449    160618+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hde8           450      1650   9647001   83  Linux

 Linux booting works fine, and I can get dos too boot fine, if I boot off a
floopy & run "format /mbr" or whatever...ponder...

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