Re: Disk Corruption
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:30:05PM -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> /boot/boot-menu.b: no such file or directory. Hmm...
> >
> > +++++++++++++++++
> > 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 could be wrong about that being what makes the menu happen. A quick
glance at 'man lilo.conf' indicated that it was the source of it.
>
> >
> > 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."
There is a difference between /dev/hda and /dev/hda1. You tried to put it
in the partition. I'm talking about the master boot record. That would be
boot=/dev/hda not boot=/dev/hda1
>
> > 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.
Same as above. You are writing LILO to the boot sector of the first
partition not to the master boot record of the second drive. I don't know
what would happen if you used /dev/hdb instead of /dev/hdb1.
>
> 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
>
So now you get the red menu when you hit any key using the floppy? Well, I
don't know anything more to tell you. I'm surprised someone more in the
know hasn't chimed in already. LOL. At this point I don't know what to
recommend. I don't know where /boot/boot-menu.b comes from. I did 'dpkg
-S' on the file and it says it's part of the lilo package. It's about 7Kb
in size.
Anita
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