Lilo displaying "01010101010101"
I recently installed Slackware 12.1 on a computer at work with hopes that it would work perfectly. Only to find out that when I rebooted I received the message "01 01 01" scrolling across the screen. I looked up the error message and it means:
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Illegal Command I CAN boot into it from the slackware cd via: 'hugesmp.s root=/dev/hda3 rinit= ro' and everything works perfect. I edited the lilo.conf file so it uses 'VGA = normal' instead of 1024x768x256. I ran /sbin/lilo and it gave me an error message stating: Code:
Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system. Any ideas? Thanks, DragonM15 |
yes yes i think i remember this from a long time ago. why are you fiddling with VGA parameters?
to fix it i think maybe you can try putting grub on to the bootsector from a live CD, if that'll work. i dont know how though, you'll have to search. |
The only reason that i messed with the VGA parameters was because it said it didn't support VESA BIOS extensions needed to display 256 colors. And 'VGA=NORMAL' fixed one of my other computers in the past. Although not from this error, but I figured it was worth a try. By default it was set to 256 colors so I thought that might help.
But WHY am I getting this error? It should be fine. Fresh install, and the bios recognizes the hard drive. I don't understand what the problem is here. DragonM15 |
If you have more than one disk, the BIOS may report them in the wrong order. You can fix this by editing /boot/grub/device.map. An '01 01 01 ...' repeating error looks like you
installed Lilo rather than grub. Was there an "L" or "LI" or "LIL" or "LILO before the 01? |
Slackware's default bootloader is lilo. I've no idea what the problem is, but maybe this should be moved to the Slackware forum.
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Yes I did install lilo as it is the default slackware bootloader. Also, this might need to be moved to the slackware forum, but I thought I would get better responses in the Desktop forum since this is a desktop and I didnt think of it as OS specific. But I guess more OS's come with grub rather than lilo. Any ideas? Thanks, DragonM15 |
Alright. I came up with the bright idea of running:
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lilo -M /dev/hda Any ideas? I have ran out of mine. Thanks, DragonM15 |
No, not much idea here. You could try getting to your /etc/lilo.conf, with a live CD, see what that says, possibly edit it, then rerun lilo. :scratch:
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You could also try GRUB if there isn't a specific reason you wan't to use LILO.
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# LILO configuration file Thanks, DragonM15 |
Alright, so I removed lilo, and installed grub from the slackware cd's 'extra' folder. I ran grubconfig and my menu.lst file looks like:
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# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'. Code:
Grub loading stage1.5 Thanks, DragonM15 |
I haven't a clue as to what the solution is. The menu.lst and lilo.conf both look OK as far as I can tell. Need someone with more knowledge to notice this.
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It might help if you gave more details regarding your hardware, mobo, drives, bios etc.
To me, it sounds like a BIOS problem, or, not a problem, but the way the disk is set up in bios. If you have a grub boot disk, have you tried booting from the grub prompt from the boot disk rather than installing it to the MBR? |
The video non recognition also points to an unusual bios setup. Sometime "shadowing" of ROM in RAM is setup in the bios or some other unusual memory setup. These should be turned off.
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) (rev 04) Code:
/dev/hda: Code:
processor : 0 Code:
MemTotal: 1030188 kB Intel bios version MV85010A.a5A.0035.P04 |
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