LILO boot error
Getting a LI w/blinking underscore on reboot and can't type.
SW 9.1 install. I'm a noob so pardon my ignorance. I've already read through all similar posts and tried reconfiguring LILO in all possible combinations and still getting just the LI with a blinking underscore at bootup. Only option I have not done is installing LILO to floppy. Using a stand-alone Slackware Linux installation... no other OS. Fresh hard drive, completely wiped. Any help is really appreciated. |
can you post your lilo.conf and drive layout? also, did you run lilo or /sbin/lilo as root after your lilo.conf was set up?
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hda1 = swap (512Mb)
hda2 = root (~14.5Gb) Yes, I ran LILO from both root and /sbin after reconfiguring. Tried both superblock and MBR... neither worked. Relavent liloconfig settings: boot = /dev/hda message = /boot/boot_message.txt prompt timeout = 1200 vga = normal image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda2 label = Linux read-only Thanks! :) |
hmm, this might be one of those flukey things that someone with more experience would know about. until then, what i would do is run the liloconfig utility again and this time set up lilo on a boot floppy. if that boots, that might help isolate the problem as being something to do with your hard disk, boot sector, etc. you have booted into this system before, right? i mean, your partitions are initialized or whatever to be able to boot?
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Yes, all partitions created fresh, all packages installed. Just can't get it to boot from HD by inself.
Guess I'll try the floppy approach. Thanks for all your help! :) |
Problem solved!
I had to manually edit the lilo.conf file (after a quick lesson using vi). It seems thats running liloconfig was creating a problem in one line of the file.
boot = /dev/hda2 (my actual boot partition) ...needed to be changed to boot = /dev/hda ... even though I had specifically typed /dev/hda in liloconfig. It seems to me that liloconfig is picking-up the wrong path designation when it writes lilo.conf. This problem/solution had been mentioned in other threads also. Thanks for the response synaptical! Another noob problem solved... I'm off to find another! ;) |
yeah that is totally weird, because the lilo.conf you posted looked okay. so you type "/dev/hda" in liloconfig, and it puts "dev/hda2" in the lilo.conf file? weird. maybe that's why i never use those configuration tools and like to learn how to do everything by hand. :p no mysteries. :D
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That is strange. I'll point out that the entry really should be '/dev/hda1' to be most correct, even if you have only one partition.
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