[ale] Verifying DMI Pool Data... then, nothin' ?

[Jim]

If it were me, I'd install grub, but lilo usually gets installed in the
mbr via:

/sbin/lilo -vvv

Of course, be sure the lilo.conf file does reflect your desires and
configuration.

Jim.
Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Brian,
>  
> Thank you for your reply.
>  
> How do you "install a bootloader" ?
>  
> I used lilo before all this began and the original /etc/lilo.conf was
> recovered.
>  
> Appreciatively,
>  
> Courtney 
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Brian D. Pitts <mailto:bpitts at LearnLink.Emory.Edu>
>     *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <mailto:ale at ale.org>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:03 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [ale] Verifying DMI Pool Data... then, nothin' ?
>
>     Hardware misconfiguration or failure is the normal cause for a
>     freeze after that message. I haven't been closely following your
>     saga, but your computer probably stops here because it can't find
>     anything to boot. It's my understanding that you used gpart to
>     recreate your partition table and can now mount the disk. Did you
>     install a bootloader? Here is what it would look like if GRUB was
>     installed
>
>     [brian at localhost ~]$ sudo dd bs=446 count=1 if=/dev/hda | xxd
>     1+0 records in
>     1+0 records out
>     446 bytes (446 B) copied, 0.000332417 seconds, 1.3 MB/s
>     0000000: eb48 90d0 bc00 7cfb 5007 501f fcbe 1b7c  .H....|.P.P....|
>     0000010: bf1b 0650 57b9 e501 f3a4 cbbd be07 b104  ...PW...........
>     0000020: 386e 007c 0975 1383 c510 e2f4 cd18 8bf5  8n.|.u..........
>     0000030: 83c6 1049 7419 382c 74f6 a0b5 07b4 0302  ...It.8,t.......
>     0000040: 8000 0080 4194 0000 0008 fa90 90f6 c280  ....A...........
>     0000050: 7502 b280 ea59 7c00 0031 c08e d88e d0bc  u....Y|..1......
>     0000060: 0020 fba0 407c 3cff 7402 88c2 52be 7f7d  . ..@|<.t...R..}
>     0000070: e834 01f6 c280 7454 b441 bbaa 55cd 135a  .4....tT.A..U..Z
>     0000080: 5272 4981 fb55 aa75 43a0 417c 84c0 7505  RrI..U.uC.A|..u.
>     0000090: 83e1 0174 3766 8b4c 10be 057c c644 ff01  ...t7f.L...|.D..
>     00000a0: 668b 1e44 7cc7 0410 00c7 4402 0100 6689  f..D|.....D...f.
>     00000b0: 5c08 c744 0600 7066 31c0 8944 0466 8944  \..D..pf1..D.f.D
>     00000c0: 0cb4 42cd 1372 05bb 0070 eb7d b408 cd13  ..B..r...p.}....
>     00000d0: 730a f6c2 800f 84ea 00e9 8d00 be05 7cc6  s.............|.
>     00000e0: 44ff 0066 31c0 88f0 4066 8944 0431 d288  D..f1... at f.D.1
>     <mailto:D..f1... at f.D.1>..
>     00000f0: cac1 e202 88e8 88f4 4089 4408 31c0 88d0  ........ at .D.1
>     <mailto:........ at .D.1>...
>     0000100: c0e8 0266 8904 66a1 447c 6631 d266 f734  ...f..f.D|f1.f.4
>     0000110: 8854 0a66 31d2 66f7 7404 8854 0b89 440c  .T.f1.f.t..T..D.
>     0000120: 3b44 087d 3c8a 540d c0e2 068a 4c0a fec1  ;D.}<.T.....L...
>     0000130: 08d1 8a6c 0c5a 8a74 0bbb 0070 8ec3 31db  ...l.Z.t...p..1.
>     0000140: b801 02cd 1372 2a8c c38e 0648 7c60 1eb9  .....r*....H|`..
>     0000150: 0001 8edb 31f6 31ff fcf3 a51f 61ff 2642  ....1.1.....a.&B
>     0000160: 7cbe 857d e840 00eb 0ebe 8a7d e838 00eb  |..}. at ....}.8..
>     0000170: 06be 947d e830 00be 997d e82a 00eb fe47  ...}.0...}.*...G
>     0000180: 5255 4220 0047 656f 6d00 4861 7264 2044  RUB .Geom.Hard D
>     0000190: 6973 6b00 5265 6164 0020 4572 726f 7200  isk.Read. Error.
>     00001a0: bb01 00b4 0ecd 10ac 3c00 75f4 c300 0000  ........<.u.....
>     00001b0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 e8f0 e8f0 0000       ..............
>
>     446 byte bootloader + 64 byte partitoon table + 2byte signature = MBR
>     http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/
>
>     To install GRUB to the MBR, you can follow the directions at
>     http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Invoking-grub_002dinstall.html#Invoking-grub_002dinstall 
>
>     -Brian
>
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