Re: Weird lilo problem
Hi
I've seen that before, some time ago I had the same problem, and the
solution was to repair MBR.
I used a dos bootdiskette, booted up and from the A:> promt I ran fdisk
/mbr.
That deleted the existing configs in MBR. Then I booted up with a debian
boot diskette (or you can use the cd) and ran lilo again. everything
worked fine:)
I'm not sure that's your problem, but it cant't hurt to try.
/ernst
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Rox de Gabba wrote:
> I think i didn't explain my problem very clearly, i am horrifically
> sorry about it, i should have been more clear considering the weirdness
> of the problem. Now ehat makes the difference is what kernel is running
> when i run lilo, not what kernel i want to boot into... i never get to
> the stage where i could choose. My lilo.conf and all the symlinks in /
> are in order (otherwise lilo would have complained when run and things
> would never be working).
>
> Now when i am running a certain kernel, everathing is in order, i run
> lilo under that kernel and proper changes take effect. But if i run lilo
> when running any other kernel, lilo in the boot record is messed up and
> it never even gets as far as the boot menu.
>
> To ilustrate even more clearly... i have three kernels installed
> currently, 2.4.18-bf24 (from the woody install cd), 2.4.18-686 (from
> apt-get with apt sources pointing to a debian mirror) and 2.4.19-686
> (one i have compiled myself). If i am running the 2.4.28-bf24 kernel and
> run lilo, then everything is ok. But if i am running any of the other
> two kernels (or any other kernel for that matter, i have removed several
> kernels from my system since trying to eliminate the problem), then lilo
> in my mbr is messed up and it never gets to the boot menu. I have to
> boot from cd, rescue the 2.4.28-bf24 kernel, reerun lilo (whitout any
> changes) and lilo is again installed properly.
>
> Let's say that i have lilo properly configured and am running the
> 2.4.28-bf24 kernel and run these commands
>
> //the running kernel is 2.4.28-bf24
> #lilo
> Adding Linux*
> Adding Linux-686.OLD
> Adding LinuxOLD
> // Linux is the 2.4.19, Linux-686.OLD is the 2.4.28-686 i got using
> apt-get and LinuxOLD is the 2.4.28-bf24 from the install cd
> #shutdown -r now
> //the reboot takes effect
> lilo: Linux
> loading Linux..............................
> //boot messages
> login:user
> password:
> //greeting message
> $su
> #lilo
> Adding Linux*
> Adding Linux-686.OLD
> Adding LinuxOLD
> //note that i have not done any changes whatsoever and that lilo does
> not complain about anything
> #shutdown -r now
> //reboot takes effect
> lilo: L 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04
> 04 04 04 04 04
> //note, that it did not even get to the stage to choose the kernel image
> to load, it gets into the 04 04 loop just before the boot menu
> //now i insert the woody cd, hit ctrl-alt-del and get it's boot prompt
> boot: rescbf24 //it is the rescue for the 2.4.28-bf24 kernel
> loading linux............................
> //boot messages
> login:user
> password:
> //greeting message
> $su
> #lilo
> Adding Linux*
> Adding Linux-686.OLD
> Adding LinuxOLD
> //again, no complaint from lilo and nothing has been changed in
> lilo.conf or / or /boot
> #shutdown -r now
> lilo: Linux
> loading Linux............................
> //everything is ok again
>
> I hope i have made my situation clear and also hope that someone will
> get an idea about what's going on.
>
>
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