Re: Installation has not created boot properly
On (04/10/03 00:19), dan oram wrote:
> >From: Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
> >>
> >>I installed Debian Linux on my Windows PC yesterday. Everything seemed
> >>to go smoothly, except it hasn't created the boot sector properly.
> >>Booting from the hard disk it gets as far as displaying the following:
> >>
> >>Booting from IDE 0
> >>
> >>LI
> >>
> >>
> >>And it freezes. I can boot fine from the rescue disk. Does anyone have
> >>any ideas why this happens/ how to fix it?
> >>
> >Probably either:
> >1) LILO failed to properly write the boot sector; just re-run "lilo" to
> >see if that fixes the problem.
> >
> >2) LILO is misconfigured; post /etc/lilo.conf for us to peruse.
> >
> >
>
> Well, after several attempts at re-running LILO, it still didn't get any
> further. So, needing my PC in some kind of working order I set about
> repairing the Win2000 boot sector... And got exactly the same as my
> post-Linux install boot attempts. In the end (after running round the room
> panicking quite a lot) I found out about, and ran FIXMBR from the Windows
> recovery disks. It worked (easing my heart condition somewhat!)
>
> So.... it appears LILO is doing something nasty with my disk's MBR. Any
> suggestions where I could go from here? Are there other Linux boot
> programs I could try? Do you need any technical details about my system to
> help? (I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to system type stuff).
>
> In case it's this, here's my lilo.conf (with comments taken out):
>
> lba32
> boot=/dev/hda
> root=/dev/hdd1
> 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
Hi Dan
Is your root partition really on the 4th Hard Drive? If it's on the 4th
partition, root=/dev/hda4
I'm not sure about this next bit but on my machine which I'm not dual
booting I have initrd=/initrd.img just before image=/vmlinuz but if you
didn't get a message on this during the install you may not need it.
Others should be able to guide you.
Regards
Clive
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