Re: Problem Booting After Install
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install
> Scott MacMaster wrote:
>
> >>If you use the boot floppy and go into the selection process, try
> >>pressing Alt-F2 and see if you get to a login prompt. If so, login, and
> >>give us the results of:
> >>
> >>df -h
> >>
> >>
> >
> >FileSystem Size Used Avail Use% on
> >/dev/hdb1 14G 73M 13G 1%
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Also, at this point, you should be able to run "nano /etc/lilo.conf" to
> >>edit the lilo.conf file.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I was able to view the contents of lilo.conf. Here are the contents
(minus
> >the comments).
> >
> >lba32
> >boot=/dev/hdb1
> >root=/dev/hdb1
> >install=/boot/boot-menu.b
> >map=/boot/map
> >delay=20
> >vga=normal
> >default=Linux
> >image=/vmlinuz
> > label=Linux
> > read-only
> >image=/vmlinuz.old
> > label=LinuxOLD
> > read-only
> > optional
> >
> >Any thoughts on how to get this to work?
> >
> >
> >
>
> OK, that looks good. I don't have the history of this thread in front of
> me, but if I remember correctly, when you try booting off the hard drive
> without the rescue floppy, you get a bunch of numbers across the screen.
Yea, although I would be happy if I could boot off the floppy.
> In that case, it looks like you may just need to rerun lilo to reinstall
> is in your mbr. Just run "lilo" and you should see a message like "Added
> Linux*". Then reboot ("shutdown -r now") and hopefully all will be well.
This is the output lilo gives:
Warning: /dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk
Added Linux *
Skipping /vmlinuz.old
However, it still doesn't work. After the screen goes blank this is the
output I get (when I try to boot off the hd).
MBR
L 01 01 01...
01 01 01...
01 01 01...
01 01 01...
.
.
.
Hmm, this seems different then before. I thought it was displaying 48 not
01 before. Anyway, do you have any thoughts on how to get this to work.
Thanks,
Scott MacMaster
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