RE: lilo does not work!

2001-07-31 Thread Alvin Oga
s still the way I wanted it and run 'lilo'. > > John Gilger > > > -Original Message- > From: Mike McGuire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 05:07 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: lilo does not work! > > > On Mo

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:07:02PM -0400, Mike McGuire wrote: > So, as I see it, those of us with the problem are stuck booting from > floppies unless they've got some other working install, and waiting > for someone who knows better to figure out what's going on. Joy. :-/ I see in another post

RE: lilo does not work!

2001-07-31 Thread Gilger.John
e- From: Mike McGuire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 05:07 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: lilo does not work! On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:18:58PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: > Hi > from the manual: > LI The first stage boot loader was

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Mike McGuire
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:07:02PM -0400, Mike McGuire wrote: > > ...stuff... > > So, as I see it, those of us with the problem are stuck booting from > floppies unless they've got some other working install, and waiting > for someone who knows better to figure out what's going on. Joy. :-/ > >

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Mike McGuire
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:18:58PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: > Hi > from the manual: > LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot > loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a > geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without r

lilo does not work

2001-07-30 Thread Markus Hansen
Jason i did the following steps apt-gert remove lilo apt-get install lilo it wanted to confiure so it sayd keep old? no ok what do you boot from sda1 ok no does not work, ok no wonder mbr on sda? yess ok so it booted up to " mbr LI " and here it stopped...wrong patition or what? i said boot from

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2001-07-30 Thread Markus Hansen
--- Begin Message --- Is sda1 your root partition? You should cc: the debian list on these, so that other people can read them. I'm no expert I Lilo. Why don't you include a copy of your /etc/lilo.conf and the output of running /sbin/lilo in your next mail? That might help. On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 a

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Jason Majors
And no lilo errors when you ran it? Strange... After booting from your floppy, maybe upgrading lilo (or reconfiguring it) will make it start working again. That's mostly a guess though. On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:51:51PM +0200, Markus Hansen scribbled... > Jason > strange, but i did. > markus >

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
I've been told that if the kernel's not somewhere near the beginning of the disk (in the first gig? that's just a guess), LILO can have trouble seeing it. Sometimes people make a separate partition to mount /boot on and put it near the front of the disk to solve this problem. Running 'lilo -l' (as

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Miguel Griffa
Hi from the manual: LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. could it be possible that you miss a step in

Re: lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Jason Majors
Did your rerun lilo after editing lilo.conf? Even if the kernel you just compiled is corrupted or has a driver problem, lilo should still come up. You'd just see a kernel panic or other error when booting that kernel. When I see something like what you saw it's because I forgot to rerun lilo. On M

lilo does not work!

2001-07-30 Thread Markus Hansen
hi guys i tried to install a 2.2.19 kernel inseead of a 2.2.17. after booting it sayed LI LI LI etc. i dont know, somehow i must have killed my lilo or at least parts of it. do you know how to fix it? can it be that i am using a wrong scsi driver in the new kernel? i am booting now with 3.5" disk