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sniper8752 · 05-16-2019, 10:52 PM

I apologize if this isn't the right place to post this. I thought this would be the closest place that relates to what I am using.

I am trying to setup my bootloader, and am using LILO. I ran the "lilo" command and got the error that you see in the attached screenshot.

business_kid · 05-17-2019, 05:04 AM

I don't like that. FYI, LBA & CHS are both modes of addressing hard disks.
Back in the day, when 10MB was more than you could fill in a lifetime, Microsoft designed the hard disk in the pa to have a max of 1023 cylinders, 16 heads and 63 sectors/track. That gave 512MB; LBA gave 2Gig I think, and CHS gave more.

Lilo needs the boot sector(track 0, sector 0) and does/used to configure itself using offsets from that. It needs to be sure about your boot sector, and it isn't. As root, run fdisk or gdisk, and read the partition table. Fix any errors. Run an fsck on sda1 and wherever /boot is if not sda1. Also post your lilo.conf.

sniper8752 · 05-17-2019, 07:30 AM

I am not sure how to fix it, but I've posted details of the partition, and also the config file.

business_kid · 05-18-2019, 08:03 AM

I was thinking more along the lines of

Code:

fdisk /dev/sda
m (for instructions)
p (and examine the output for errors)
Then  perhaps x (extra functionality) and v (verify partition table)
Lastly, 'w' to write that stuff and exit

BTW, the lilo.conf looks good. If you still have the err5or, google it. I'm not the repository of all knowledge on this.