on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:38:50PM +0000, Martin Waller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > Never had lilo probs quite like this before - after installing on a new > machine I get: > L 40 40 40 40 40 etc. > > Whats up?
It's broken ;-)
/usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz:
L <error> ... The first stage boot loader has been loaded and
started, but it can't load the second stage boot loader. The
two-digit error codes indicate the type of problem. (See also
section "Disk error codes".) This condition usually indicates a
media failure or a geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters, see
section "Disk geometry").
Have you:
- re-run lilo (you're obviously going to have to boot from an
alternate disk -- try a Debian install disk, the LinuxCare BBC, or
Tom's Root/Boot (noting kernel compatibility & ext2fs issues w/
last).
- if you've re-run lilo, tried a different boot sector? I found I had
to move from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hda recently for reasons which
remain somewhat mysterious.
Might care to post your /etc/lilo.conf and output of
$ fdisk -l <primary disk>
Cheers.
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