Re: Disk Corruption
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 17:40, Anita Lewis wrote:
> Ok, that's a step in the right direction. We know that the lilo.conf is
> working. If you hit TAB during the LILO startup before it goes off into
> Linux, You will probably see windows as a choice and you could type that in
> and go to xp.
>
> The menu is produced from /boot/boot-menu.b I think you need the word
> prompt for that. I'm not sure. I have the menu and my config file looks
> like this on top:
/boot/boot-menu.b: no such file or directory. Hmm...
> +++++++++++++++++++++
> boot=/dev/fd0
> map=/boot/map
> prompt
> lba32
> vga=normal
> delay=100
> timeout=100
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
> label=Debian
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda6
>
> +++++++++++++++++
> I have other things under that, and when I boot, I get a red menu with the
> list to choose from. It waits a while and then goes off to load the first
> one if I don't choose.
This is what used to happen
>
> I'm afraid that I do not know anything about putting LILO in a partition -
> I've only put it in the mbr of the first drive or on a floppy before.
>
> I don't understand how LILO could be in /dev/hdb1 and have both hda1 and
> hdb1 bootable. I thought that whatever was in /dev/hda1 would then boot.
> I would suggest putting LILO in the mbr of the first drive (/dev/hda) except
> that I don't know if that would wipe out something that is needed in order
> to boot XP. I know it would be OK for Win 98, but don't know about XP.
Actually, I tried that, and LILO refused with the error that it wasn't
able to be written to that type of partition. (NTFS)
"Device 0x0301: Partition type 0x07 does not seem suitable for a lilo
boot sector."
> To me it looks like LILO was somewhere and got removed and that which is on
> /dev/hdb1 was never really what was being used. That sounds kind of off the
> wall, but I'm not an expert on LILO either. You have written the same thing
> that is written on /dev/hdb1 onto the floppy and that works (no menu, but no
> 01's either) so that means that some other place on your drives is getting
> accessed during the boot - something other then the boot sector on /dev/hdb1
> unless maybe that boot sector is shot for some reason. That doesn't sound
> good and I don't even know if that is possible.
I am starting to think the same thing. Lilo is writing to the boot
sector for /dev/hdb, so I would expect it to preform some basic sanity
checks when it does so. That leaves /dev/hda as the culprit.
Added 'prompt' on its own line, and raised delay to 100
I just re-ran liloconfig, once for fd0 and once for hdb1. Booting from
HDD did not work. Booting from the floppy caused this error:
Lilo: descriptor checksum failed
and then stopped without a prompt. I removed the 'prompt' directive,
left the delay at 100, and re-ran LILO again for both drives. Now I can
hit a key to get the menu and boot into either WinXP or Linux. I booted
into XP and ran scandisk on dixk C:\ (hda), which found no errors.
-Jonathan
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