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01-15-2020, 10:49 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2010
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 2,271
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Can't boot, get 99 posted on screen about a 100 times
I swapped in a new boot disk. When I try to boot, I get a bunch of 99s on the screen. It happens even when I try to boot from a flash drive. The disk passed e2fsck -f before and after the attempt.
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01-15-2020, 01:43 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2004
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 5,438
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Is it a UEFI or BIOS machine? Is the disk mbr or gpt? What bootloader are you using? Can you boot from any media? Do you have a stuck keyboard?
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01-15-2020, 02:38 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: florida panhandle
Distribution: Slackware Debian, Fedora, others
Posts: 7,848
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Can't boot, get 99 posted on screen about a 100 times
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lilo needs be reran it looks like.
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I swapped in a new boot disk
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What kind of boot disk? external, internal, usb, floppy? Boot disk or boot partition?
Last edited by colorpurple21859; 01-15-2020 at 02:40 PM.
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01-15-2020, 03:06 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Mar 2008
Posts: 22,361
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Stuck "9" key?
Does it past POST? Could this be a POST error?
I guess remove the disk and see if it still fails at usb? (I assume you have tested the usb boot before to be sure it should work)
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01-16-2020, 06:59 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2010
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 2,271
Original Poster
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Quote:
Originally Posted by teckk
Is it a UEFI or BIOS machine?
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BIOS
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Originally Posted by teckk
Is the disk mbr or gpt?
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MBR
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Originally Posted by teckk
What bootloader are you using?
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LILO
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Originally Posted by teckk
Can you boot from any media?
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When this disk isn't installed internally.
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Originally Posted by teckk
Do you have a stuck keyboard?
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No.
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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859
What kind of boot disk? external, internal, usb, floppy?
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Sometimes internal, sometimes external, sometimes USB.
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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859
Boot disk or boot partition?
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Either
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Originally Posted by jefro
Stuck "9" key?
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No. When I wrote 99, I meant . I counted this time: it's exactly 250, after an 'L'.
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Originally Posted by jefro
Does it past POST?
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It gets past POST. The keyboard lock keys toggle their LEDs; ctrl-alt-del reboots
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Originally Posted by jefro
I guess remove the disk and see if it still fails at usb?
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The flash drive boots when the disk isn't installed.
Trying to boot from that disk when it's installed externally fails in the same way, but I can boot from the other HDD when it's internal and that disk is installed externally.
I just e2fsck -f -ed it; it passes. |
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01-16-2020, 08:03 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Wild West Wales, UK
Distribution: Linux Mint 22 MATE, Peppermint OS-Devuan, EndeavourOS, antiX
Posts: 4,440
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RandomTroll,
From this old thread:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-a-4175429483/
Boot from Slackware's cd/dvd, then:
Code:
huge.s root=/dev/sda1 rdinit= ro
When it boots and all is well, run lilo and lilo should fix itself.
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01-16-2020, 10:41 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2010
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 2,271
Original Poster
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Quote:
Originally Posted by beachboy2
Boot from Slackware's cd/dvd, then:
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The CD/DVD drive doesn't work. Seeing as how simply having the disk installed prevents booting from a flash drive, I don't think it would make a difference. The disk checks out when installed externally (but can't be booted from).
How do you know this is a LILO problem? |
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01-16-2020, 12:26 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: florida panhandle
Distribution: Slackware Debian, Fedora, others
Posts: 7,848
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The is a sign of the lilo bootloader not working. Swapping around drives will cause this to happen.
To get the flash drive to boot you will have to press the esc or one of the f-keys to when the computer is first turned on be able to select the usb to boot, or go into bios settings and set usb as first in the boot order.
Last edited by colorpurple21859; 01-16-2020 at 12:33 PM.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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01-16-2020, 12:50 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Wild West Wales, UK
Distribution: Linux Mint 22 MATE, Peppermint OS-Devuan, EndeavourOS, antiX
Posts: 4,440
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RandomTroll,
The "infamous 99s" seem pretty common according to this old thread from 2012 and points to a LILO problem as colorpurple21859 has stated:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...n-boot-946918/ |
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1 members found this post helpful.
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01-16-2020, 02:34 PM
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#10
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2010
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 2,271
Original Poster
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It was a bad lilo.conf. To get to the fix, I had to boot from a flash drive with the troubled HDD unattached, then attach it. Unfortunately it has defects too. This computer is 10 years old, seems to break things - I need to bite the bullet and buy a new one.
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