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Re: LILO stopped working - giving strange message



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Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> 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).

I can check which minor ver of LILO I have, but as I said, I don't think It's
really important.
Anyway, I don't want to use "loadlin", probably because I'm from these
conservative ones, who would
like to boot Linux the old fashion way - straight on boot time.
But, thanks.


--
Noam Meltzer
tsnoam@myself.com
ICQ: 4853872


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