--- Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When booting my system lilo hangs at 'L'. I > can boot from the floppy fine. This occurs when > booting from the harddrive only. No > error code just 'L' > > How do i fix? > > Lance >
This is a quite common problem. Lots of discussions and solutions from google, for example: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Linux_Setup/Q_10047032.html Yeilds this: Try booting with linux append="hda=xx,xx,xx" (where the xx's denote C(ylinders),H(eads),S(ectors per track). Once you've booted up and Lilo knows the geometry of your drive, put a permanent line in /etc/lilo.conf (the same append statement without the word linux) & re-rerun /sbin/lilo. Next time you boot it should be able to boot off hda2. A better solution of course would be to simply reinstall Lilo to the MBR - it will boot '95 just fine, but try the above if you don't want to go that route. As well as this: On my system: /usr/doc/lilo-0.19-1/README I'll paste some relevant parts here: When LILO loads itself, it displays the word "LILO". Each letter is printed before or after performing some specific action. If LILO fails at some point, the letters printed so far can be used to identify the problem. This is described in more detail in the technical overview. [snip] L <error> ... The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started, but it can't load the second stage boot loader. The two-digit error codes indicate the type of problem. (See also section "Disk error codes".) This condition usually indicates a media failure or a geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters, see section "Disk geometry"). What exactly have you got in the MBR, btw? ;-) ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.charleshbaker.com/~chb/ Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
