Hello, Cloned a SuSE/Windows laptop drive and if I try to boot from it I get a L 999 999 999... ad infinitum. Is the MBR toast? Lilo was used as the boot loader. Anyway to repair this? Thank you in advance. James
Try knoppix and rebuild your lilo.conf? ----------------------------------------------- Sent by freemail.servebeer.com Signup for your free 100mb Mail account today! Full pop3/smtp accounts available!! ----------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: James D. Parra [mailto:Jamesp@MusicReports.com] Sent: 16 February 2005 23:14 To: Suse-Linux-E (E-mail) Subject: [SLE] cloned suse drive won't boot Hello, Cloned a SuSE/Windows laptop drive and if I try to boot from it I get a L 999 999 999... ad infinitum. Is the MBR toast? Lilo was used as the boot loader. Anyway to repair this? Thank you in advance. James -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:13 am, James D. Parra wrote:
Cloned a SuSE/Windows laptop drive and if I try to boot from it I get a L 999 999 999... ad infinitum. Is the MBR toast? Lilo was used as the boot loader. Anyway to repair this?
I'd use the the very useful "repair existing system" option of the 9.2 install disk. Boot from the Suse 9.2 Pro CD and choose "Install" Just before you get to the screen where you select the partitioning and packages, you will meet a screen that says there is an existing system, one option is to boot it, another is to repair it. Choose repair and ask for the expert option. A lot of the tests are time-consuming and you know the problem is with the boot loader. Expert gives you a screen to directly choose to fix just the bootloader. Edit each bit of the boot loader setup, in cases like this I always tick the box to replace the Master Boot Record with generic code. Check you have an entry for the windows system, and tell it to finalise the changes. See if it boots now, unless disk positions have changed it should. michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
The Wednesday 2005-02-16 at 15:13 -0800, James D. Parra wrote:
Cloned a SuSE/Windows laptop drive and if I try to boot from it I get a L 999 999 999... ad infinitum. Is the MBR toast? Lilo was used as the boot loader. Anyway to repair this?
You forgot to run lilo on the system. You may boot the rescue system, tell it to boot installed system, then run lilo. Or boot the rescue system (CD/DVD), mount your HD root partition, chmod to it, run lilo, reboot. Or use repair system from CD. Or... -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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