[ILUG] LIL- problem

[Cormac McClean]

The letters you get in the LI- or LIL- message indicate 
different problems with booting into Linux. According to
Redhat Linux unleashed V3:
	LIL- means LILO found a corrupt descriptor table
(whereas LIL means that the descriptor table could not be 
read).

But that may not be much help. The problem is
that NT does not like LILO, and rather than installing
LILO in the MBR (as you might when running dual boot
with Win98), you need to do the following:
	install LILO in the Linux partition
	copy the linux boot sector onto a floppy disk, using dd,
		into a file boot.lnx, say 
	switch into NT and copy the boot.lnx file into the NT partition
		(possible onto the root C:? or C\winnt?)
	edit NT's boot.ini file to include boot.lnx
This way, NT is made aware of Linux through its boot loader, and
when you select Linux on the boot menu, LILO will start

The syntax of the dd command is
	dd if=(linux partition) of=(output file) bs=512 count=1
e.g.
	dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/mnt/floppy/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1

Full details are in the lilo README file.

Hope this helps.

Cormac.