This usually happens when you don't run 'make bzlilo' after compiling your new kernal.
All I had to do when this happened to me was edit my /etc/lilo.conf file to make sure everything was still the way I wanted it and run 'lilo'. John Gilger -----Original Message----- From: Mike McGuire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 05:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: lilo does not work! On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:18:58PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: > Hi > from the manual: > LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot > loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a > geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map > installer. > > could it be possible that you miss a step in compile/install kern? > > At 10:00 p.m. 30/07/01 +0200, Markus Hansen wrote: > >hi guys > >i tried to install a 2.2.19 kernel inseead of a 2.2.17. > >after booting it sayed > >LI > >LI > >LI > >etc. Seems to me this is a fairly widespread problem, as I'm getting it too, but with kernel 2.4.7. I've read through the bugreport (here: http://bugs.debian.org/105788 ) and someone thought that there was an issue with the newer kernels handling the disk geometry in some new way that messed things up (the former problem in the manual in the previous message). However, I've tried booting an older (2.2.17) kernel and running lilo under that with no success, so I personally think there's a problem with lilo, which I can't check because there isn't an older version still on debian's ftp servers. I've also tried playing with the BIOS settings, lilo options like lba32, but that hasn't done anything. Right now I'm booting the new kernel off a floppy (which isn't too painfully slow with a superdisk drive, heh) Loading the kernel off the floppy and mounting the root fs from the hard drive works fine. So I tried just using the floppy to point to a kernel on the HD, but that didn't work. So, as I see it, those of us with the problem are stuck booting from floppies unless they've got some other working install, and waiting for someone who knows better to figure out what's going on. Joy. :-/ Mike McGuire -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
