On 0, Seneca Cunningham <seneca@slemish.com> wrote: > Martin Edward John Waller wrote: > > I've done a potato install but can't boot from the > > hard disk (have the floppy boot working OK tho'). > > > > I get the above message (L 80 80 80 continuosly). > > > > Is there a way to fix this? I installed lilo > > diecrtly onto the mbr. > > Does the information in /etc/lilo.conf match your system? What do you > get when you run lilo? > > From /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"). > [...] > Disk error codes > [...] > 0x80 "Disk timeout". The disk or the drive isn't ready. Either the > media is bad or the disk isn't spinning. If you're booting from a > floppy, you might not have closed the drive door. Otherwise, trying to > boot again might help. Or, of course, that the disk isn't there. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "That you're not paranoid does not mean they're not out to get you." - Robert Waldner
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