Re: Install (LILO ?) problems!
On Sat Feb 24 00:06:54 2001 David Raeker-Jordan wrote...
>
>> This seems to have been done by the installer. I booted from the floppy, looked
>> at /etc/lilo.conf (which had all teh correct setings for my confg as dar as I
>> can tell), and ran lilo just on general principles.
>>
>> I alos watched the boot messages, and went back and set the corrrect disk
>> paramters in the BIOS by hand (39813/16/63).
>>
>> If I try to boot from the hard didk, I get the following:
>>
>> L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 ............ and it continures till i hit the power
>> swithc.
>>
>> More sugestions?
>>
>
>>From /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt:
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>Disk error codes
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>If the BIOS signals an error when LILO is trying to load a boot image, the
>respective error code is displayed. The following BIOS error codes are
>known:
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>...
>
>0x40 "Seek failure". This might be a media problem. Try booting again.
>
Interesting, I notice, that even though I have entered the correct drive
geometry in the BISO, whn I can boot (from the floppy) I get a message about
ignoring the bad geometry from the BIOS, and indeed the numbers printede there
make no sense.
Sugestions?
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