LILO Video Adapter error
Hey there,
Although I have been able to boot into Slackware onto KDE from my usb boot disk, I still keep getting this error when attempting to install/configure LILO. I took some photos to show the exact error. This first image is when I attempted to install LILO during Slackware installation. http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7889/pict0236bs8.jpg This, of course, on KDE. http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3541/pict0241fj5.jpg Would anyone know what really is the problem here? I have put LILO on the MBR (dev/hda), as I had Windows XP first installed, but through System Configuration I get the same image [shown above in pic #2] when editing the .conf to change the boot sector to my Linux partition (dev/hda2). As for trying to get back into Windows, I can get a Windows Setup Disk and remove LILO from the MBR? Because right now, I can't boot into Windows since LILO won't start up. I'll get an error after BIOS loading that there is an error loading an operating system. |
Hi,
And welcome to LQ! Can you please tell us what type your graphics adapter is? When you're booting into KDE, open a konsole and copy the output of Code:
lspci | grep -i vga section (which isn't a problem in itself), but you need to give the copy a *different* label. Cheers, Tink |
Update: This is great! I finally got it fixed. I had to do my editing directly to the .conf rather than using the other tabs in System Configuration -> LILO. Even trying to change just the label, I would get the error again. Thanks again for your answer about changing the labels, though. When done automatically after selecting Probe, all Linux kernels were given the same label, so I thought that was normal at first.
Hey, thanks for the welcome. This is the text output I received: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AQ [Radeon 9600] I will note that I have just installed the latest graphics driver from ATI. I've made some changes to the lilo.conf - edited the labels and marked the check on Windows's partition table to be ignored, and got the following OK message. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3904/pict0244ks4.jpg I rebooted the comp, and LILO did come up. However, having selected to boot Windows, it has been stuck at a text screen saying: boot: NT Loading NT I've left that comp on for the last 10 minutes and it's still stuck on that. I know my Windows partition is there as I can access its data from Linux. |
Glad to hear you're making progress!
To assist you with the Windows-boot problem we'll need to know more about how you did the partitioning/resizing and the likes to get space for Linux, whether the drive changed e.g. from primary to secondary since windows was installed ... Cheers, Tink |
Oh all is well now. I am able to boot into both Windows or Linux from LILO. I used GParted to make room for the Linux partition.
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