Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

[Ulrich Leopold <uleopold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 15:41, Leendert Meyer wrote:
> On Monday 19 July 2004 15:23, Ulrich Leopold wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > GRUB freezes or hangs still after a 9.1 installation.
> >
> > I also tried to install Lilo. It does not work either.
> > Lilo also hangs at the boot and writes lots of 99 99 99 99 ...
> 
> That's a good clue! :)
> 
> man lilo, it's there:
> 
>   99 invalid second stage index sector (LILO)
> 
> and
> 
>   Errors 99 and 9A usually mean the map file (-m or map=) is not readable,
>   likely because LILO was not re-run after some system change, or there is a
>   geometry mis-match between what LILO used (lilo -v3 to display) and what is
>   actually being used by the BIOS (one of the lilo diagnostic disks, available
>   in the source distribution, may be needed to diagnose this problem).
> 
> I think it is a geometry mismatch.
> 
> With that conclusion I'm at unfamiliar territory. Other people: Please help if 
> you know what to do ;)
> 
> Does your HD use LBA? Check in the BIOS.

What is LBA? It might be that it is that. The cylinders are 512 kb of
size. But how can I change my hard disk to another format? I mean
everything installs fine except from the Bootloader... But I can boot
from CD when I choose under installation -> Boot installed system.

Would a new hard disk solve the problem?

> What does 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' show?

fdisk showed the correct partitions with the first one marked for
active. But I deleted it now again and try to install again and then use
it for a while with this very obscure option until I found out how to
solve it.

/dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda2 swap
/dev/hda3 /
/dev/hda4 /home

> 
> Do you have anything special on your HD? (Other precious partitions)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Leen
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