On Tuesday 16 October 2001 6:48 pm, Nick Hopton wrote:
I've just done a completely standard install of Personal 7.2 on my machine. Because I have two physical hard disks (one 30-gig, partitioned between Win 2000 and Win 98, and one 10-gig, devoted entirely to Personal 7.2) I chose to have LILO written to a floppy. When I try to start the system using the LILO floppy, all that happens is that I get the following on the screen: L 10 10 10 10, repeated to infinity. The only way I can start the system is by using the boot disk.
I've written several boot disks with no problems, so the drive and the media don't seem to be a problem. I've also done a complete re-install.
Is my Personal 7.2 broken? Should I take it back to the shop? There is a limit to the amount of *pain* that I can endure when installing software
No your SuSE isn't broken. Even though your boot disk doesn't work you can
still boot the installed system using the first or second CD.
This normally happens when you try to boot Linux beyond the 1024th cylinder
or there's another OS present. However, you said that SuSE is on a separate
hard disk so this could mean one of a few things:
1. You have not specified the correct partition and LILO is attempting to
load another OS, possibly above the 1024th cyclinder (although I'm sure this
isn't a problem with the version of LILO that comes with SuSE 7.2).
2. Your BIOS doesn't support booting secondary drives and LILO can't find the
information it needs. I don't think that this be a problem with a boot disk.
3. There was an error when originally running LILO. The 'L' means that the
first part of the boot loader worked and the '10's indicate a CRC error (so
I'm led to believe). Try re-running LILO.
4. I've also read (vague memory) that this problem can occur with older
drives (CHS). Try using changing the 'linear' setting when configuring LILO.
Well that's all I can think of at the moment. Hope it helps.
If you can't get it sorted post a little more information next time re. your
drives, i.e. IDE channel, partitioning, OS information etc.
M
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Martin Webster