[ale] LILO Problems

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Scott,

I was looking through the LILO docs 

/usr/doc/lilo-0.20/doc/User_Guide.ps on my red hat 5.2 system

and saw 2 different things it might be:

0x04 is "Sector not Found"  This typically indicates a geometry
mismatch.  If you're booting a new-written disk image, verify whether
it was created for disks with the same geometry as the one you're
using.  If you're booting from a SCSI disk or a large IDE disk, you
should check whether LILO has obtained correct geometry data from the 
kernel or whetehr the geometry definition correspondsto the read disk
gemetry (see section 3.4) Removing compact may help too. So may adding 
'linear'

0x40 "Seek Failure" This might be a media problem.  Try booting again.


Did you compile this kernel on your machine specifically for a floppy
(that's what make bzdisk does, I think)?  or did you just do a 'make
zImage' or 'make bzImage'?

If you do a make clean; make bzImage, you might get a kernel you can
boot from your hard drive.

You could also try adding the 'linear' option to /etc/lilo.conf


-Eric.

smnoldelinux at mediaone.net writes:
 > My goal is to boot the vmlinuz-2.2.12-smn2 since I've already got it
 > booting from a floppy (bzdisk).
 > 
 > Here's the info..........
 > 
 > /etc/lilo.conf:
 > boot = /dev/hda
 > delay = 50
 > timeout = 500
 > prompt
 >   default = new
 >   vga = normal
 >   read-only
 > map=/boot/map
 > install=/boot/boot.b
 > image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
 >   label = linux
 >   initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
 >   root = /dev/hda6
 > image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-smn2
 >   label = new
 >   root = /dev/hda6
 > 
 > fdisk /dev/hda:
 > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 524 cylinders
 > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
 > 
 >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
 > /dev/hda1   *         1         7     56196   83  Linux
 > /dev/hda2             8       524   4152802+   5  Extended
 > /dev/hda5             8        16     72261   82  Linux swap
 > /dev/hda6            17       524   4080478+  83  Linux
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Scott
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > "Eric Z. Ayers" wrote:
 > > 
 > > Scott,
 > > 
 > > What does your /etc/lilo.conf look like?  what partition are you
 > > booting off of?  send
 > > 
 > > /etc/lilo.conf
 > > 
 > > the output of fdisk 'print partition table' on the disk you are trying
 > > to boot off of,
 > > 
 > > and /etc/fstab
 > > 
 > > and I'll see if I can help.
 > > 
 > > -Eric.