[LUNI] LILO problems - machine doesn't boot from hard disk after LILO installation

[Carl Longmire]

The BIOS upgrade shouldn't be necessary. I'm running a 486 with LILO and
it play quite nice not to mention the Pentium MMX, and others that play
just as nice with LILO.
Questions: Did you run /sbin/lilo after editing the /etc/lilo.conf file?
Did you use the MBR (Master Boot Record) of your primary drive for LILO
(Boot = /dev/hda)?
Are you dual booting?
If you do get some progress - here are some LILO prompt errors
  L<nn> - <nn>=1 of 16 disk-error codes.
  LI    - The second-stage boot loader loaded, but could not run.
  LIL   - The descriptor table could not be read.
  LIL?  - The second-stage boot loader loaded at an incorrect address.
  LIL-  - LILO found a corrupt descriptor table.
  LILO  - LILO ran successfully.

Hope this helps some.

Carl

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 07:15, Stephan V Bechtolsheim wrote:
> I bought an old machine (Pentium 200MHz) to install IPCop on it.
> The LILO installation does not seem to work - actually it seems to
> install, but then it does not boot at all. I know that LILO is supposed
> to print the four letters 'LILO' and depending on how many of these
> letters are printed - that tells me something (which I haven't looked
> up yet because I don't get any output at all).
> 
> I think the next step should probably be looking into upgrading the BIOS
> of that motherboard. Does that make sense?
> 
> And any suggestions of how to upgrade the BIOS? Meaning where
> do I get the newest version of the BIOS from?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> StvB
> 
> 
> Stephan V Bechtolsheim
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