On (04/10/03 00:19), dan oram wrote: > >From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>I installed Debian Linux on my Windows PC yesterday. Everything seemed > >>to go smoothly, except it hasn't created the boot sector properly. > >>Booting from the hard disk it gets as far as displaying the following: > >> > >>Booting from IDE 0 > >> > >>LI > >> > >> > >>And it freezes. I can boot fine from the rescue disk. Does anyone have > >>any ideas why this happens/ how to fix it? > >> > >Probably either: > >1) LILO failed to properly write the boot sector; just re-run "lilo" to > >see if that fixes the problem. > > > >2) LILO is misconfigured; post /etc/lilo.conf for us to peruse. > > > > > > Well, after several attempts at re-running LILO, it still didn't get any > further. So, needing my PC in some kind of working order I set about > repairing the Win2000 boot sector... And got exactly the same as my > post-Linux install boot attempts. In the end (after running round the room > panicking quite a lot) I found out about, and ran FIXMBR from the Windows > recovery disks. It worked (easing my heart condition somewhat!) > > So.... it appears LILO is doing something nasty with my disk's MBR. Any > suggestions where I could go from here? Are there other Linux boot > programs I could try? Do you need any technical details about my system to > help? (I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to system type stuff). > > In case it's this, here's my lilo.conf (with comments taken out): > > lba32 > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hdd1 > install=/boot/boot-menu.b > map=/boot/map > delay=20 > vga=normal > default=Linux > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > image=/vmlinuz.old > label=LinuxOLD > read-only > optional Hi Dan
Is your root partition really on the 4th Hard Drive? If it's on the 4th partition, root=/dev/hda4 I'm not sure about this next bit but on my machine which I'm not dual booting I have initrd=/initrd.img just before image=/vmlinuz but if you didn't get a message on this during the install you may not need it. Others should be able to guide you. Regards Clive > > _________________________________________________________________ > Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger > http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
