On Wednesday 13 August 2003 21:28, David Fokkema wrote:
> Hmmm... this looks good as far as I can see... What I don't understand
> is that lilo complained that the map file and the boot sector were on
> different drives. I _never_ got that error. However, it might mean
> nothing...
It means nothin
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:46:53PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> > Maybe I'
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
hey all
So I get back from a lovely 6000km road trip and am working on some LDP
documentation. I install the Morphon XML editor in /usr/local (with JRE)
with no problems around 10pm. At 3am I shut down my system using "sudo
halt"--like I always do. At 9:30am I try to start
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
David Fokkema said:
Just some desperate and incoherent thoughts...
- Are you able to boot from cd or floppy and specify
root=/dev/hda1 in lilo?
It's already set to that.
You probably want it to be "root=/dev/hda" before you chroot and run lilo.
David Fokkema said:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:18:24PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
>> Warnings are:
>> BIOS drive 0x40025b20 may not be accessible
>> Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system
>> The boot sector and map file are on different disks
>>
>> Then at the very end
Emma Jane Hogbin said:
> As best I can tell lilo isn't actually running. When I execute a shell
> program and then try to run lilo using: lilo -r /target
> I get the following error: sh: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: version `GLIBC_PRIVATE'
> not found (required by /target/lib/libc/so.6). I get the same mess
Kent West said:
> If your boot sector is physically damaged, there's nothing you can do
> about it except to replace the drive or boot off some other medium (such
> as a boot floppy). But as I mentioned above, that's not real likely
> (unless it's a six year old drive; I think drives tended to "par
On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 16:40, David Fokkema wrote:
> I'm sorry this was necessary... The fourth or seventh time? You
> reinstall debian quite a lot, then.
Ive installed debian all of _once_ and never looked back. That was over a year
ago. Even when i was on mandrake i would reinstall with each n
Tom Badran said:
> On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 16:40, David Fokkema wrote:
>> I'm sorry this was necessary... The fourth or seventh time? You
>> reinstall debian quite a lot, then.
>
> Ive installed debian all of _once_ and never looked back. That was over a
> year ago. Even when i was on mandrake i wo
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:48:17PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> David Fokkema said:
> >> What I don't understand is why it worked last night and then today it
> >> was
> >> broken. I wasn't messing around with kernel installation stuff or
> >> anything
> >> unusual. It was a clean shutdown, so
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
David Fokkema said:
I can only think of one thing now, but I don't see how that would lead
to your lilo not booting at all...
If you are using a kernel from debian, it might be that you need to
specify an initrd image like this:
initrd=/initrd.img
I don't have an in
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
Kent West said:
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
David Fokkema said:
Just some desperate and incoherent thoughts...
- Are you able to boot from cd or floppy and specify
root=/dev/hda1 in lilo?
It's already set to that.
You probably want
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:02:39PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> lilo.conf
> lba32 # I've also tried linear
> boot=/dev/hda # I've also tried lilo -M /dev/hda mbr
> root=/dev/hda1
> install=/boot/boot-menu.b
> map=/boot/map
> prompt
> delay=100
> timeout=100
> vga=normal
> append="hdc=ide-scsi"
Just a little ps on my lilo.conf file
Emma Jane Hogbin said:
> install=/boot/boot-menu.b
This file does not exist (I don't know if it should).
> map=/boot/map
This file exists.
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:46:53PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> Emma Jane Hogbin said:
> > Now I'm getting: L 40 40 40 40 (etc). The error code means
> > "seek failure" according to some emails I found (via google). I installed
> > lilo on the MBR (hda not hda1) and have tried rebooting with bo
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:46:16AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> Kent West said:
> > If your boot sector is physically damaged, there's nothing you can do
> > about it except to replace the drive or boot off some other medium (such
> > as a boot floppy). But as I mentioned above, that's not real
David Fokkema said:
> Hmmm... this looks good as far as I can see... What I don't understand
> is that lilo complained that the map file and the boot sector were on
> different drives. I _never_ got that error. However, it might mean
> nothing...
What I don't understand is why it worked last night
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
I am the *only* person I know that has technology problems like this. In
the last two months I've had to return: a compact flash card (died
randomly within the first week of use); a cel phone (defective
software--an option was missing from one of the screens); a camera (die
Kent West said:
> Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
>>David Fokkema said:
>>>Just some desperate and incoherent thoughts...
>>>- Are you able to boot from cd or floppy and specify
>>> root=/dev/hda1 in lilo?
>>
>>It's already set to that.
>>
> You probably want it to be "root=/dev/hda" befor
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:18:24PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> Emma Jane Hogbin said:
> > As best I can tell lilo isn't actually running. When I execute a shell
> > program and then try to run lilo using: lilo -r /target
> > I get the following error: sh: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: version `GLIBC_PRI
hey all
So I get back from a lovely 6000km road trip and am working on some LDP
documentation. I install the Morphon XML editor in /usr/local (with JRE)
with no problems around 10pm. At 3am I shut down my system using "sudo
halt"--like I always do. At 9:30am I try to start my computer and it won't
Kent West said:
> 1) Boot off the rescue CD, and mount the / partition (perhaps on /target)
> 2) Shell out, then "chroot /target"
> 3) Run "lilo". Are any errors the same as you posted earlier?
> 4) "exit" to get out of the chroot'd system
> 5) "shutdown -r now"
>
> which I think you've done. Still
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:42:13PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> If that is the case what do I do? I've already checked for bad blocks on
> /dev/hda1 using e2fsck. It said something about 1% not being continuous
> but didn't want to to fix anything when I ran it using the "fix me"
> parameter.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:55:40PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> David Fokkema said:
> > Hmmm... this looks good as far as I can see... What I don't understand
> > is that lilo complained that the map file and the boot sector were on
> > different drives. I _never_ got that error. However, it mi
David Fokkema said:
>> What I don't understand is why it worked last night and then today it
>> was
>> broken. I wasn't messing around with kernel installation stuff or
>> anything
>> unusual. It was a clean shutdown, so I doubt there are the usual bad
>> blocks from when the system crashes.
>
> No
Emma Jane Hogbin said:
> Now I'm getting: L 40 40 40 40 (etc). The error code means
> "seek failure" according to some emails I found (via google). I installed
> lilo on the MBR (hda not hda1) and have tried rebooting with both my
> previous lilo.conf file and the default conf file. Both give the s
Kent West said:
> Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
>>boot. The system reboots right after the "If you'd like to enter the BIOS
>>press F12." I've tried running a rescue disk and I can get the /
>> partition to mount
>
> Odd. It sounds like maybe your boot sector has a problem. I'd try
> booting into rescue
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:20:51PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> Just a little ps on my lilo.conf file
>
> Emma Jane Hogbin said:
> > install=/boot/boot-menu.b
>
> This file does not exist (I don't know if it should).
No, that's ok.
> > map=/boot/map
>
> This file exists.
Good.
David
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