Unable to boot from hdd with recent lilo/mbr packages!!!
Hello *,
Since 5 weeks after updating some packages from unstable (including
lilo and mbr) I am no longer able to boot my laptop from hdd!! :-(
After some investigations I found that lilo may be incompatible with
SystemSonft Bioses and so I tried to use boot-compat.b instead of
boot.b .
I tried a lot of different settings in lilo.conf but without sucess....
Just some additional infos that might help:
The problem startet with lilo hanging after LIL-
I then reran a newer version of lilo and then even this message
disappeared, now only the bios message which asks for a system
disk to be inserted is displayed. I even tried to run install-mbr
with different options still without success!!!
Heres is my lilo.conf and partition-table:
boot=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/hda4
# This file was created automatically by liloconfig
# Automatic creation, will do it every time
# run dpkg-reconfigure lilo if you want to change the way this operates
install=/boot/boot-compat.b
delay=20
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
lba32
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=Linux
other=/boot/vmlinuz.old
label=OLD-Linux
Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 6007357440 bytes
Heads: 240 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 776
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size(MB)
------------------------------------------------------
Unusable 7.75
hda1 Primary OS/2 hidden C: drive 286.44
hda2 Boot Primary Linux ext2 7.75
hda3 Primary Linux swap 100.64
hda4 Primary Linux ext2 5604.81
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