Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

[Leendert Meyer <leen.meyer@xxxxxxx>]

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

Do you have anything special on your HD? (Other precious partitions)

Cheers,

Leen