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Originally Posted by nightrider
Tomorrow morning I power on the machine. Surprise: The LILO menu didn't appear. In its place appeared a letter "L" in the line 1 column 1 of the screen and pairs of 9's till the middle of the screen and the system freezes. I'm writing you after boot via Mandriva 2006 live CD. If I define mounting points and mount the drives data seems to be ok in the partitions.
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Here is an explanation of the LILO error codes:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/a1483.html
Since you got an L and nothing else that means that the part of LILO on the MBR was read in successfully but the part of LILO in the Mandriva /boot directory was not read in successfully. The part of LILO that it could not find is /boot/boot.b.
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Originally Posted by nightrider
I'm writing you after boot via Mandriva 2006 live CD. If I define mounting points and mount the drives data seems to be ok in the partitions.
Is there a way of reconstruct the LILO entries in the way I can at least save some files of the HD?
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Boot into the live CD and check to see if /boot/boot.b and /etc/lilo.conf are OK. If both of those files are good you can probably fix LILO.
The Mandriva live CD probably has an option to boot into an existing OS. If it does then boot the Mandriva live CD and then use it to boot into the Mandriva OS you installed on the new hard drive. Then log in and su to root. Issue the command to install LILO to the MBR:
lilo
After you re-install LILO you can try to save some of the files on this hard drive. Actually you can try to save the files even if you don't get LILO re-installed.
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Originally Posted by nightrider
My theory is that the new(old) disk I bought have problems and it causes troubles to the IDE controller and the controller corrupts the LILO menu. Is this theory a possible cause of the trouble?
All the troubles seems began after I install this new used disk as slave.
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Your problems could be caused by having two devices installed on the same address. Check your hard drives and DVD to see if you have two masters or two slaves.
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Originally Posted by nightrider
I forgot to say that I replace my CD recorder drive by a new LG DVD recorder drive dual layer. When I try to burn a CD with K3B the system reports no disks in drive. Is this correct? I can't burn CDs in a DVD recorder drive? Or is this error an indication os troubles with the controller? I had successfully burn 2 DVDs before the trouble with the CD burn.
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Look at the specifications for your LG DVD recorder. Will it burn both CDs and DVDs?
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Steve Stites