Gentoo - Lilo won't boot - Asrock P4VM8 mobo
Hi all.
I'v installed Gentoo on my ASRock P4VM8 mobo, with a Celeron 2.5Ghz, etc .. The installation went fine till the end. I installed and configured lilo, like the config i alway's use and alway's worked. But when i boot lilo starts but doesn't show the boot menu, it only show's 'L' and no error code. just a capital 'L'. Now i know that this means that he can't get into stage 2 of his boot. But try'd and try'd and i realy can't fix this ): This is my lilo config: livecd ~ # cat /mnt/gentoo/etc/lilo.conf # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-boot/lilo/files/lilo.conf,v 1.2 2004/07/18 04:42:04 dragonheart Exp $ # Author: Ultanium # # Start LILO global section # # Faster, but won't work on all systems: #compact # Should work for most systems, and do not have the sector limit: lba32 # If lba32 do not work, use linear: #linear # MBR to install LILO to: boot = /dev/hda map = /boot/.map # If you are having problems booting from a hardware raid-array # or have a unusual setup, try this: #disk=/dev/ataraid/disc0/disc bios=0x80 # see this as the first BIOS disk #disk=/dev/sda bios=0x81 # see this as the second BIOS disk #disk=/dev/hda bios=0x82 # see this as the third BIOS disk # Here you can select the secondary loader to install. A few # examples is: # # boot-text.b # boot-menu.b # boot-bmp.b # install = /boot/boot-menu.b # Note that for lilo-22.5.5 or later you # do not need boot-{text,menu,bmp}.b in # /boot, as they are linked into the lilo # binary. menu-scheme=Wb prompt # If you always want to see the prompt with a 15 second timeout: #timeout=150 delay = 50 # Normal VGA console #vga = normal # VESA console with size 1024x768x16: #vga = 791 # # End LILO global section # # # Linux bootable partition config begins # image = /boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 root = /dev/hda4 # root = /devices/discs/disc0/part4 label = Gentoo.2005.1 read-only # read-only for checking # # Linux bootable partition config ends # # # DOS bootable partition config begins # other = /dev/hda1 #other = /devices/discs/disc0/part1 label = Windoze table = /dev/hda # # DOS bootable partition config ends # Does it have something to do with my BIOS? Or with my partition layout? It's as follows: /dev/hda1 => windows C /dev/hda2 => windows D /dev/hda3 => linux swap /dev/hda4 => linux / And the boot flag stand on hda1. Please help me with this, i don't know what else to do ): Thanks in advanced! linkmark |
May I ask, did you make a seprate partition for boot that contains your kernel ?
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But to be honest it sounds like you didn't run the lilo command after you wrote the conf?
blah@blah ~$ /sbin/lilo chroot back into the system and try that it might work! |
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Grub is even worse, i just can't get it installed and the config is good as the gentoo handbook say's. |
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This is the output when i run /sbin/lilo .. maybe it's some good information:
livecd / # /sbin/lilo -v -v -v -t LILO version 22.7 (test mode), Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2005 John Coffman Released 12-Apr-2005 and compiled at 22:58:01 on Sep 12 2005 raid_setup returns offset = 00000000 ndisk = 0 BIOS VolumeID Device Reading boot sector from /dev/hda pf_hard_disk_scan: ndevs=1 0300 46644664 /dev/hda Resolve invalid VolumeIDs Resolve duplicate VolumeIDs 0300 46644664 /dev/hda device codes (user assigned pf) = 0 device codes (user assigned) = 0 device codes (BIOS assigned) = 0 Filling in '/dev/hda' = 0x80 device codes (canonical) = 1 Device 0x0300: BIOS drive 0x80, 16 heads, 65535 cylinders, 63 sectors. Partition offset: 0 sectors. Using Volume ID 46644664 on bios 80 Device 0x0304: BIOS drive 0x80, 16 heads, 65535 cylinders, 63 sectors. Partition offset: 39650688 sectors. Using Volume ID 46644664 on bios 80 Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system. Using MENU secondary loader Calling map_insert_data Secondary loader: 18 sectors (0x3400 dataend). bios_boot = 0x80 bios_map = 0x80 map==boot = 0 map S/N: 46644664 BIOS data check will include auto-suppress check Boot image: /boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 Device 0x0304: BIOS drive 0x80, 16 heads, 65535 cylinders, 63 sectors. Partition offset: 39650688 sectors. Using Volume ID 46644664 on bios 80 Setup length is 9 sectors. Mapped 4106 sectors. Added Gentoo.2005.1 * <dev=0xe0,hd=37,cyl=70,sct=50> "ro root=304" Boot other: /dev/hda1, on /dev/hda, loader CHAIN Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 16 heads, 65535 cylinders, 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors. Using Volume ID 46644664 on bios 80 Device 0x0300: BIOS drive 0x80, 16 heads, 65535 cylinders, 63 sectors. Partition offset: 0 sectors. Using Volume ID 46644664 on bios 80 Mapped 6 (4+1+1) sectors. Added Windoze <dev=0xe0,hd=37,cyl=72,sct=168> BIOS VolumeID Device 80 46644664 0300 The boot sector and the map file have *NOT* been altered. livecd / # |
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wanna ask a thorough help in my asrock p4vm8 motherboard. i had run the installation for redhat9 successfully but after booting it up the screen displays *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c010ab2c>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010002 EIP is at disable_irq [kernel] 0x4c (2.4.20-8) eax: 00000000 ebx: fffff680 ecx: ffffffed edx:c036ef80 esi: 00000283 edi: 00000000 ebp: ffffffed esp: cff79f48 ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=cff79000) Stack: ffffffed 00000000 c03c9e80 c01bd1fc ffffffed 00000000 c031da20 00000000 c03c9e80 00000000 00000000 c01bdcd8 c03c9e80 00000000 00000028 00000001 00000001 00000001 00000001 00000001 00000001 00000001 00000001 00000001 Call Trace: [<c01bd1fc>] probe_hwif [kernel] 0x27c (0xcff79f54)) [<c01bdcd8>] ideprobe_init [kernel] 0xb8 (0xcff79f74)) [<c0105053>] init [kernel] 0x13 (0xcff79fd8)) [<co10742d>] init [kernel] 0x0 (0xcff79fe0)) [<c010742d>] kernel_thread_helper [kernel] 0x5 (0xcff79ff0)) Code: ff 50 10 eb d0 0d 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! i had reinstall linux 5 times with a /boot partition, and hadn't sleep yet for 2 days, i'm a really newbie in linux and having this installed successfully means a big TAP on my shoulder, pls write me as soon as u have any info about my motherboard and its VIA chipset. until then i could sleep droozing! tanks in advance |
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i had installed the linux automatically which means the installer uses all my hard drive for linux only, sad to say the same display in screen is what i got! pls anybody who can configure linux on a p4vm8 VIA chip. i can't sleep yet!!! |
I fixed my problem, i changed the number of sylinders of the hd to a lower amount and installed gentoo with a boot partition.
I'm not using RH at all, so i think i'm not able to help you. But maybe this can help, to get ur VGA card running => http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Unichrome I'm not that good with kernel's, but maybe u can search on the error code u pasted above. Or ask in the RH chanel @ irc.freenode.org => #redhat Good luck |
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