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Old 04-29-2010, 01:37 PM   #1
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lilo or hardware problem?


I recently had a failed install of current and decided to go back to 13 but I have lost my ability to boot with lilo.

At first I was getting a "Loading Linux: EBDA is big" failure message then after a second reinstall I started getting the 99 errors from lilo.

I thought I'd pop another hard drive in from a working slack 13 box and set it up as hda to see if that would boot but the same thing, 99's written across the screen. This drive was booting fine in another box.

I've tried manually running lilo

Interestingly, with both hard drives, I am getting lilo messages that my video adapter is not recognised. This has never happend before.

Thinking that my slack 13 disk was bad I've just installed 12.2 after wiping my disk and repartitioning and I still can't get lilo to work.

I'm wondering if this may be a bios or mobo problem since the video adapter is now also not being recognised. Output from lilo -v3 follows and note that I can boot and use the installed system using hugesmp.s from the install disk.

Code:
LILO version 22.8, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 John Coffman
Released 19-Feb-2007 and compiled at 12:43:17 on Nov 29 2008.
Running Linux kernel 2.6.27.7-smp on i686

Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
device-mapper major = 253
raid_setup returns offset = 00000000  ndisk = 0
 BIOS   VolumeID   Device
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
pf_hard_disk_scan: ndevs=2
  0300  440F7330  /dev/hda
  0800  22E3A813  /dev/sda
Resolve invalid VolumeIDs
Resolve duplicate VolumeIDs
  0300  440F7330  /dev/hda
  0800  22E3A813  /dev/sda
device codes (user assigned pf) = 0
device codes (user assigned) = 0
device codes (BIOS assigned) = 0
Filling in '/dev/hda' = 0x80
Filling in '/dev/sda' = 0x81
device codes (canonical) = 3
Device 0x0300: BIOS drive 0x80, 16 heads, 65535 cylinders,
               63 sectors. Partition offset: 0 sectors.
Using Volume ID 440F7330 on bios 80
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 16 heads, 65535 cylinders,
               63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Using Volume ID 440F7330 on bios 80
Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system.
Using BITMAP secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data
Secondary loader: 19 sectors (0x3800 dataend).
bios_boot = 0x80  bios_map = 0x80  map==boot = 0  map S/N: 440F7330
Mapping bitmap file /boot/slack.bmp
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 16 heads, 65535 cylinders,
               63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Using Volume ID 440F7330 on bios 80
width=640 height=480 planes=1 bits/plane=8
Warning: Video adapter does not support VESA BIOS extensions needed for
  display of 256 colors.  Boot loader will fall back to TEXT only operation.
Calling map_insert_file
Bitmap: 31 sectors.
BIOS data check will include auto-suppress check
image_menu_space = 16

Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.27.7-smp
Device 0x0301: BIOS drive 0x80, 16 heads, 65535 cylinders,
               63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Using Volume ID 440F7330 on bios 80
Setup length is 23 sectors.
Mapped 9236 sectors.
Added Linux *
    <dev=0xe0,hd=48,cyl=65,sct=66>
    "ro root=301  vt.default_utf8=0"

 BIOS   VolumeID   Device
  80    440F7330    0300
  81    22E3A813    0800
Writing boot sector.
/boot/boot.0300 exists - no boot sector backup copy made.
Map file size: 77312 bytes.
RAID device mask 0x0000
Failsafe check:  boot_dev_nr = 0x0300 0xffffffc0
map==boot = 0    map s/n = 440F7330
3 warnings were issued.
 
Old 04-29-2010, 02:37 PM   #2
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Seems that hda and sda are the same. Did you check what these two devices are? For the video adaptor problem, you can disable bitmap menu and use text menu which also has a beautiful appearance.
 
Old 04-29-2010, 02:55 PM   #3
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hda is an 80gb ide hd and sda is a 300gb sata hd. I don't understand why there would be a problem there as the sata has always been there. In fact last month I had two ide drives plus the sata on board and booting from both ide's, no problems setting up that dual boot with lilo. nor changing lilo after removing the second ide hd later on. The sata is just an archival directory.
 
Old 04-29-2010, 03:47 PM   #4
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I reinstalled with sda1 disconnected and can now boot with lilo. However this doesn't explain why after 3 years of running /sbin/lilo with that sata drive as /dev/sda1 error free, I now have to disconnect it and also get those video device warnings when that never happened before with 12.2 or 13.0.
 
  


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