lilo of slackware 12.1 problem
Recently I installed slackware 12.1 in my frnd's comp. Everything went fine except lilo. Although it was installed successfully it just displayed 0s n 1s after booting.
Then I loaded linux using slack dvd and tried all commands including startx which were fine. I reinstalled lilo manually using liloconfig first time in simple and second time in advanced mode but both din work. I got same 0s n 1s :( I also copied lilo file from dvd and executed /sbin/lilo I got 4 warnings but lilo installed successfully msg came. Then I installed mbr of windows and tried to change boot.ini file like this: first I went to slackware /* using dvd */ and installed lilo to super block. Then took 512 bytes /* using command dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/tmp/boot.lnx bs=1 count=512 */ of linux partition and stored it in c: as boot.lnx file. Then added c:\boot.lnx="Slackware" to boot.ini I got an option in boot menu for slackware but when I selected it nothin really happend. /* screen was freezed with an _ */ I also tried LOADLIN but nothin happend. /* If u know exact procedure for LOADLIN please mention it becuase I think what I did with LOADLIN was suitable for DOS not NT */ Please help me in solving this mystery /* It never happend in my last 52 installations of slackware */ Even grub dint load when I installed kubuntu in same comp ! It has to do something with hard disk ? |
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In order to solve this problem you need to post your /etc/lilo.conf Re-installing a Windows MBR will of course completely wipe out anything that you have done with lilo. samac |
Hi,
Be sure to not have a BIOS virus protection setup. Disable the BIOS virus protection to allow the 'MBR' write. Code:
as root from the cli; You can 'man lilo' or 'man lilo.conf' to get more information. |
Try posting /etc/lilo.conf and the output of "fdisk -l /dev/[HARD DRIVE DEVICE]" (run as root). I have installed LILO to a superblock and forgotten to mark the partition as bootable in the past. Perhaps you have done something similar.
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