Re: L 80 80 80 80, etc. on boot
hi ya
simple tests to do next ???
- get a boot media, floppy or bootable cdrom etc
- dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdaxxxx where your / is
- than fix lilo
- make sure oyu have lba32
- turn off linear
- rerun lilo
- make sure / is < 1024 cylinders ( 512Mb ) or
that your kernel ( vmlinuz) is in its own /boot partition
that is < 512Mb
- check the ide cables.. make sure oyuhave 80conductor cables
if you are using ata66/100 drivers
- putonly one disk per ide cable
- dont mix ata33 (cdrom) with ata100 disks
c ya
alvin
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> Martin Edward John Waller wrote:
> > I've done a potato install but can't boot from the
> > hard disk (have the floppy boot working OK tho').
> >
> > I get the above message (L 80 80 80 continuosly).
> >
> > Is there a way to fix this? I installed lilo
> > diecrtly onto the mbr.
>
> Does the information in /etc/lilo.conf match your system? What do you
> get when you run lilo?
>
> >From /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz:
> L <error> ... The first stage boot loader has been loaded and
> started, but it can't load the second stage boot loader. The two-digit
> error codes indicate the type of problem. (See also section "Disk error
> codes".) This condition usually indicates a media failure or a geometry
> mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters, see section "Disk geometry").
> [...]
> Disk error codes
> [...]
> 0x80 "Disk timeout". The disk or the drive isn't ready. Either the
> media is bad or the disk isn't spinning. If you're booting from a
> floppy, you might not have closed the drive door. Otherwise, trying to
> boot again might help.
>
> Seneca
> seneca@slemish.com
>
>
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