From the Bootdisk-howto:
http://electron.phys.dal.ca/Bootdisk-HOWTO-12.html
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12. LILO boot error codes.
Questions about these errors are asked so often on Usenet that we include them here as a public service. This summary is excerpted from Werner Almsberger's LILO User Documentation, available at
ftp://lrcftp.epfl.ch:/pub/linux/loca...lo.u.19.ps.gz.
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No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed or the partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active.
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The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started, but it can't load the second stage boot loader. The two-digit error codes indicate the type of problem. (See also section ``Disk error codes''.) This condition usually indicates a media failure or a geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters)
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You'll want to boot up the install disk with the option 'rescue' to boot up the rescue mode.
See if you can access the drive at all. If Mandrake can find your home partition, it will be mounted on /mnt. It it can, chroot /mnt so your directory hierarchy matches your install.
Scan through the /etc/lilo.conf file. Make sure the root= and boot= lines are correct.
You will want to give us more information about your system. Such as how many drives. Where the root partition should be mounted. Did you write lilo to /dev/hda or the root partiton. Are the drives ide or sata, etc.
