[ataylor]

hi, i have tried searching here for this without success.....

i recently installed red hat 8 personal, and i skipped the boot manager installation, so i asked someone how to install it after the orignal installation. they said do an upgrade and install it from there. because of my incredible newbieness, i installed it on the MBR i was told that was wrong so i tried to install on the first sector of my boot partition or something....... so i rebooted and it still didnt work. any ideas on getting this to work?

[lynch]

The easy solution?
Just reinstall RH 8 and don't skip the boot manager installation.It will work fine on the MBR.
The hard way?
You can reinstall Lilo by itself but I'd do the easy way if your not familiar with Linux.Doing an upgrade and installing it to the MBR would be ok. Did you try and see if it worked before installing it to the boot directory?
If you made a bootdisk during installation you can always insert the floppy and boot into Redhat with that,then there would be no need for a boot manager.Just leave the floppy out if you have Windows on the same comp and you need to use that.
HTH
lynch