grub L 99 error

flump · 08-07-2003, 07:36 PM

i have grub installed onto a floppy, when i boot up i just get left with the error
'L 99'
on the screen and nothing else happens.
i have a few options in the menu.lst

also the disk was pre-formatted to fat32, i used madrake bootloader fixer thing to make the disk, it just seemed to copy the needed files to the floppy (didnt format it).

i saw another post about lilo and having error L 99, which was said that stage2 could not be loaded, if that is the case i dont know why as stage2 is on the floppy.

all files are under /boot/grub on the floppy.

thanks for any help

flump · 08-08-2003, 07:22 AM

Proud · 08-10-2003, 09:41 AM

You have lilo installed, not grub. Probably because the Mandrake default bootloader is lilo.

flump · 08-10-2003, 10:13 AM

it made the folder on the floppy
/boot/grub

with the files
stage1
stage2
menu.lst

Proud · 08-10-2003, 10:55 AM

Ok, why do you have grub on a floppy, what happened to your system to make you get a bootdisk?

flump · 08-10-2003, 11:21 AM

linux all flavours doesnt detect my 80gb harddrive, so it also doesnt write to the mbr.
so i decided to put the boot loader onto a floppy and boot up that way.

Proud · 08-10-2003, 01:15 PM

So how did you manage to install the linux which is on the drive and which you are attempting to boot?

flump · 08-10-2003, 01:21 PM

insert cd, install to HDC as HDA was not found/detected what ever.
so i installed that way.

Proud · 08-10-2003, 01:42 PM

What's on hda then?
I dont use Grub-are the contents of menu.lst text-based?

flump · 08-10-2003, 01:45 PM

hda is windows xp ive tried partitioning it for linux but with still no luck.