40 40 40 40 40

lackluster · 07-15-2002, 06:09 PM

I recently resized my linux partition from within windows using Partition Magic. Now when I start my computer all it does is this :
L40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 {and it never stops...never!}. Did my MBR get overwritten? How can I fix this? THanks in advance for the help.

linuxcool · 07-15-2002, 08:29 PM

Try typing in at the boot prompt, linux root=/dev/hd??. Replace the ?? with the correct root ' / ' partition information. If it boots into linux, run /sbin/lilo. Reboot.

findeisenbf · 07-16-2002, 03:24 AM

Similar thing just happened to me but instead of 40 mine was 10 10 10 10. At the boot prompt from the boot floppy type
mount root=/dev/hda1 or wherever / partition is then ran /sbin/liloconfig and followed the instructions and now everything works.

Hope this helps,

Bill

yasasvi · 07-16-2002, 03:55 AM

Hi

I also got the same problem.This might happen ( as it happened to me) that your swap and boot partition is on primary partition and native or / partition on extended ( i may be wrong also).

But what you can do, if you have a boot floppy, boot using that and run /sbin/lilo . That could solve ur problem as it solved for me.

BOL

Bye

suresh

lynch · 07-16-2002, 05:24 AM

When you get just the L and a 2 digit error code it means that the main part of lilo has loaded but it cant find the 2nd stage bootloader: /boot/boot.b
lynch

lackluster · 07-16-2002, 12:15 PM

my system is back

thanks all.

(did linux image=myimage root=/dev/hda4 ran lilo worked great)

linuxcool · 07-16-2002, 07:58 PM

Glad to hear you got it working!