L 99 99 ... boot problems - need info
Im having problems booting a system. I'm getting a L 99 99 99 ... 99 repeated error. It doesnt give a boot prompt.
I managed to get the system to boot off the raid array (sda). But i had to disable the two ide hard drives, remove the boot flag from hda1 and change the boot order in the bios. I've tried finding good docs on the subject but have failed to find detailed ones that include this sort of thing. What I want is: 1. To have the MBR on /dev/sda (the hardware raid array) 2. lilo will give the options to boot from sda1 or hda1 (the compaq diagnostics partition) What is the proper way to do this? and how do I go about it? fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 73.3 GB, 73328371200 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8915 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 243 1951866 83 Linux /dev/sda2 244 729 3903795 83 Linux ... fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 5 40131 12 Compaq diagnostics /dev/hda2 6 4868 39062047+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 4869 14589 78083932+ 83 Linux /etc/lilo.conf: boot = /dev/sda lba32 delay = 50 vga = 773 image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/sda1 label = 2.4.21-1 read-only other = /dev/hda1 label = diag |
Just an idea - Try installing LILO to the MBR on /dev/hda and also get rid of any flags on a partition.
You want a situation where your BIOS just looks for a bootloader in 1 place, not 2. so - change the boot= .directive in lilo.conf to boot=/dev/hda and make sure you get rid of any flags. After youve changed lilo.conf make sure you run /sbin/lilo as root user to make the changes take effect |
Ive tried using hda1 as mbr, but i still get that l 99 .. error
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/dev/hda1 isnt your MBR - thats the first partition of the primary master drive - - The boot directive for your MBR is /dev/hda
The MBR on your 1st hard drive is a tiny boot sector that comes before and is separate from your first partition on that drive. |
yea, that was a typo on my part...
When i tried the MBR of hda (boot=/dev/hda) i still got the L 99 99 99 99 So theres something wrong... its not finding the kernel image on sda1 |
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