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Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Noam Meltzer wrote:
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> Well, I'll start with a description of my system:
> P200MMX, 128MB Ram
> 3HD - Primary Master
> Secondary Master
> Secondary Slave
> The CD is Primary Slave
> I have aSuse 6.4 (kernel 2.2.14)
> Now everything was working just fine until I had to disconnect one of
> the HD - the Secondary Master. The other drives stayed just how they
> were defined.
(And I understand that /boot was not on it)
> Now when I booted my machine I discovered that instead of LILO I get a
> nonstopping 01 (or was it 10, i can't remember now) with spaces between
> each pair. Anyway, I used my SuSE CD to boot the installed system,
That was really unnecessary. You simply need to load your system once and
run lilo again. There are many easy ways of doing that (using loadlin
(does thje suse CD have loadlin and a simple kernel like the RH cd in
/dosutils?), using a rescue diskette, etc.)
> and
> tried to install LILO again. But that didn't work, it just kept doing
> the same problem. So I had to use a win98 bootdisk to restore the MBR so
> I can atleast access windows.
> Now, please, any1 has anyidea how can I solve this?
The simplest way would be to use loadlin. If you don't have it on the suse
CD, grab the dosutils directory from any RH mirror, put loadlin.exe and
vmlinuz somewhere on your win98 partition (say: C:\LINUX) and make a
simple linux.bat:
c:
cd \linux
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5
(or whereewver the root linux FS is. And of course you may add any other
parametrs to the kernel).
Since that vmliuz is not your native kernel then it may have some
conflicts with your hardware (in that case - find another vmlinuz) and it
won't be able to load any of your modules. but if all you need is to load
the system once - chances are that it would be enough. If you need to use
this as a permament solution - find a way to copy your original kernel
instead).
The load win98 in dos mode, and run linux.bat
>
> P.S.
> I guess it isn't important but my LILO ver. is 21 (according to: "lilo
> -V")
which minor number? I believe that the recent versin (21.4?) has added
some support for larger disks (no more 1024 cylinders limit).
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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