Invalid partition table?
Hi,
I am having a problem booting to a Compaq LTE5200 laptop. It has
been runnning linux for almost two years until yesterday when I decided
to try to upgrade it using a bootable CD. Since it did not seem to boot
from the CD, I thought I might make it happen by modifying /etc/lilo.conf.
Here's what I have
/dev/hda1 400+M ext2 /opt
/dev/hda2 1.6+G Extented
/dev/hda5 80M swap
/dev/hda6 1.6+G ext2 / *bootdisk
/dev/hda1 used to have Windows98, but was reformatted to accommondate more
linux applications, and is not bootable. (This was done more than one
month ago.) But /etc/lilo.conf still has this windows information up
until yesterday, so I thought I'd modify it and try to add /dev/hdb
and see if that makes CDROM a bootable device.
After reboot, the first message displays reads
120 MHz Pentium Processor
External Cache: 256K Enabled
Invalid partition table
I tried to boot from a rootless diskette (floppy module and CDROM module
share the same drive bay), and run lilo from there, but there an error
message returning that said:
# lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf -b /dev/hda6 -i /mnt/boot.boot.b
Ignoring entry 'root'
Ignoring entry 'install'
First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature
The /etc/lilo.conf looks like this:
boot = /dev/hda
compact
timeout = 1
prompt
vga = normal
read-only
map = /boot/map
install = /boot/boot.p
image = /boot/vmlinuz
lable = linux
root = /dev/hda6
I am at my wit's end. As far as I can tell, everything looks fine.
Mounting /dev/hda6 after booting from tomsrbt diskette shows that
evrerything is still there. However, when I use Windows98 bootdisk to
boot, and run fdisk from dos prompt, it shows that /dev/hda2 is not a
bootable device, and there is no /dev/hda5 or /dev/hda6. I am not sure
how the whole thing happened. Would appreciate any suggestion. Thanks!
Best wishes,
Chip
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