Re: Fighting with lilo
Sounds like a borked disk to me. Or maybe memory.
Tom
Norman Walsh wrote:
>
> I've installed lilo on several machines and it's always performed
> flawlessly until now. I have one machine, a Compaq desktop on which it
> gives "Block move error 0xAE" errors.
>
> It used to be that it *always* gave this error, so I'd given up and
> installed BootMagic on it.
>
> I'm messing with that machine's configuration again and so I thought
> I'd give a recent lilo another try. A quick scan of google results on
> the block move error lead me to run 'fdisk /mbr' from the Windows
> partition, hoping that perhaps that would help.
>
> After reinstalling the DOS MBR, I booted linux off a floppy, moved the
> existing boot.xxx files out of /boot and re-ran lilo (regenerating a
> boot.0300 file, which I also thought might help).
>
> Upon rebooting, I get the LILO menu and when I select Linux, I get the
> block move error (which flashes past very quickly) then the boot menu
> again.
>
> Out of frustration, I wacked the enter key a bunch of times and to my
> stunned surprise, it succeeded on the fourth or fifth try. Color me
> confused.
>
> Can anyone suggest how I might fix this correctly, permanently?
>
> Be seeing you,
> norm
>
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