[LUNI] LILO problems - machine doesn't boot from hard disk after LILO installationCarl Longmire carllongmire at earthlink.netMon Jun 30 12:01:12 CDT 2003
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 > 925 Providence Ln > Buffalo Grove, IL 60089-1229 > > Tel. +1 (847) 478 5378 > FAX +1 (847) 478 5379 > Email: svbechtolsheim at yahoo.com > WEB: http://www.svbechtolsheim.dns2go.com > > > ---- > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion > luni at luni.org > http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni
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