I made the same mistake that Joshua and Hakan made. The READMEFIRST file
in /usr/doc/lilo gives two possible fixes:
- In linux you can remove lilo from the master boot record with:
lilo -U
- In MSDOS you can remove lilo by:
fdisk /mbr
The lilo -U fix did not work for me since I had already re-partitioned.
fdisk /mbr was successful.
Mike
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Joshua Stockwell wrote:
>
> I had this exact same setup. Slackware on the slave disk and msdos on
> the other master disk. And I just recently upgraded to Debian and ran
> into the exact same problem. Silly me to forget to uninstall lilo
> first! The reason your boot is hanging is that it is looking for the
> old lilo that doesnt't exist anymore. You need to re-install lilo. If
> your lilo.conf is setup right just type "lilo" and it should re-write
> the MBR so you'll be able to boot normally. Lilo should be on your
> linux partition, not your dos partition. Good luck!
>
> - Josh Stockwell
>
> Hakan wrote:
> >>> I have a 486 on which I untill recently had MSDos and Slackware installed
> >>> on
> >>> two diffrent harddisks, with LILO installed in the master boot block of
> >>> the
> >>> msdos harddisk allowing me to select between the two operating systems.
> >>> This
> >>> worked just fine.
>
> >>> Now, I decided to convert into Debian (I just love it's package system),
> >>> so I
> >>> through out the Slackware stuff and installed the three disks base
> >>> system. I
> >>> had to install LILO by hand because the instalation package tried to
> >>> install
> >>> it on the linx partion, which is the second partion on the secon harddisk
> >>> (/dev/hdb2). I placed it on (/dev/hda). Then I rebootet. Then insted of
> >>> the
> >>> LILO text that is supposed to show up when LILO loads I only got "L"
> >>> followd
> >>> by "04" repeated in what seemsed to infinity.
>
> >>> I have tried bothe my old Slackware lilo configuration file, the new
> >>> created
> >>> by Debian. I have tried both the lilo version that came with Debian and
> >>> the
> >>> old one used by Slackware. I have tried having both the MSDos hd and the
> >>> Linux
> >>> HD as the first HD. And Gud knows what else, but the result is just the
> >>> same.
> >>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> >>> I have temporarity solved the problem by using a MSDos boot disk with a
> >>> menu
> >>> that allows me to either run the startup files from my HD after load MSDOS
> >>> from the floppy, or execute loadlin to load a linux kernerel from my
> >>> msdos HD
> >>> and mount the root system. And this works acceptable. But it is not a
> >>> decent
> >>> solution. And since LILO worked with Slackware, I see no reason for it
> >>> not to
> >>> work with Debian. Any sugestions will be appricialed. Thanx.
>
>
>
