Fatal LILO error (!?) - Debian

I just had a new dedicated server setup for me; the DC installed a fairly outdated version of Debian on it, with some sort of strange partitioning scheme that makes little sense to me. I seem to be unable to mount, in any way, shape or form, my fifth and sixth partitions on the disk (would have been/should have been /home and /home2). I don't really care about that, not a huge problem, and I'll probably figure it out one of these weeks.

What is a problem is that after several long bouts of apt updates and upgrades (to the current "stable" distro, and then to the current "testing" distro), lilo was upgraded, and it gave a warning that because of an old /boot/boot.b symlink, it's necessary to change /etc/lilo.conf with a fairly simple change, and then run /sbin/lilo to update it, so the system will be able to boot.

When I run /sbin/lilo, I get the following really scary error:

debian:/etc# /sbin/lilo
Fatal: Filesystem would be destroyed by LILO boot sector: /dev/hda1

Any ideas? Considering that this box didn't want to reboot after a kernel upgrade, which took the DC quite a while to figure out (and then could only get it to boot with the old kernel, anyway), I'm a tad scared to ever try to reboot this machine until fixing this strange and worrisome problem...

 

 

 

 

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