>
> I'm a Debian newbie. I am stuck on an installation
> problem. When I reboot from hard disk after
> installing , I get one 'L' of LILO following by line
> after line of "40 ".
>
> Any hints or help would be most appreciated.
Here are some thoughts by Karsten M. Self:
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.
--
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> Here's some background info:
>
> I am using idepci install method.
> I took files from
> debian.dists.stable.main.disks-i386/current
>
> I put base2_2.tgz on a CD-ROM
> I put images-1.44/idepci/rescue.bin on a 1.44M FD
> root.bin "
> driver-1.bin "
>
> My PC is an circa 1995 P75. BIOS doesn't seem smart
> enough to boot from CD.
>
> The hard disk is partitioned from an earlier Red Hat
> 6.1 installation.
> hda is partitioned as hda1, hda5, hda6, hda8, hda9
>
>
>
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