Re: I boot and get: L40 40 40 40 40...

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> I have just been rearranging all my partitions, and now it looks like the
> most recent change is messing my system. A shortened version of the first
> couple post-post lines is:
> 
> 	L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
>        40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40

Lilo manual:

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:

[...]

   0x40   "Seek failure". This might be a media problem. Try booting
   again. 

Hmm. That's not very helpful.

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