[LUNI] LILO info

[Martin Maney]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 05:53:09PM -0500, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
> Hello List	
> 
> I am having some probs booting a SuSE 8.0 sys and LILO is driving me crazy!
> 
> I can not find any info on the LILO msgs I am getting at boot time. I see "80" 
> or "40" or "01" posted to the screen instead of seeing the sys boot. I have 
> looked all over the web and at SuSE and the only thing I can find is cryptic 
> info related to LILO posting a "LI" or "L" at boot.
> 
> I have 2 ATA IDE and 2 scsi drives and am using LVM.
> 
> Can anyone help me to understand the 'cascading' 40's or 80's?

I'll see if I can dig up a refernce to it, but as best I recall those
infinitely repeating numbers are an error code LILO is getting.  If you
could capture the first few characters you would probbaly see some portion
of LILO (I *think* it was "LI" the time I had something munged up).

In the meantime, maybe you could tell us a little bit about the
configuration.  You've got rather too many pieces there for guesswork to do
much good.  :-)  Things like what device are you booting off of, and what
partition is the kernel image on, and so forth.

[haven't found anything useful about the repeating LILO errors yet]

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