The only time I ever saw that happen, was on an old Comcrap, err compaq, deskpro. It was caused by the bios being software, rather then a hardware chip. Apparently, I put LILO in the MBR (like I always do), but becuase the bios was in the first sectors of the harddrive, LILO overwrote the bios info. To fix this, I had to go to compaq website and d/l the bios utility and install that, then reinstall Linux, and put LILO on floppy. : -----Original Message----- : From: L. Mark Stone [mailto:LMStone@LMStone.com] : Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 9:54 PM : To: suse-linux-e@suse.com : Subject: [SLE] LILO Dual Boot Error 01 01 01 01... : : : : Greetings from New York City! : : I recently removed a hard drive and now I can't get SuSE Linux 8.0 to : boot from the Windows 2000 Boot Manager. : : I've changed hardware before and successfully copied the first 512 bytes : of the Linux bootsector to the W2K partition, so I could add the : correct entry to Windows' boot.ini file. But this time, all I get is : lot of "01"s when I select the SuSE boot option from Windows 2000. : : If I boot from the SuSE DVD I can boot my existing Linux partition (from : the installation routine, not the "Boot installed OS" from that boot : menu). : : My hardware is a DPT 3865 SCSI controller connected to a Seagate Cheetah : disk that boots Windows 2000. SuSE Linux 8.0 is installed on an 18GB : UDMA IDE drive connected to an on-motherboard ATA-100 controller, with : the system BIOS set to boot SCSI first. The motherboard is an Asus : A7V-133 with an Athlon 1200 CPU and 512MB RAM. : : The Linux drive is identified as /dev/hde and there are two partitions: : hde1 is a 1GB swap; hde2 is a17GB ReiserFS native partition. LILO is : installed on hde2. : : I had a second 8GB SCSI hard drive (one big extended partion formatted : FAT32 for swapping files between W2K and Linux), but the drive was : getting noisy and running way too hot, so I figured it was best to : remove it before it died and took some data with it. : : After removing the dying drive Linux would no longer boot from the W2K : boot loader, so I booted from the SuSE DVD, booted my installed Linux : system, logged in as root, removed the mount point for the missing : drive from fstab, ran /sbin/lilo, then did the "dd..." trick to get the : first 512bytes from the Linux boot sector into a file (after running df : to make sure I was hitting the right partition). I ftp'd the file to a : temporary place, booted W2K, downloaded the boot sector file from the : ftp site, modified boot.ini and rebooted. : : And that's when I get nothing but a screenful of "01 01 01 01..." : : FWIW, hde2 is marked as Active (Bootable) with fdisk. : : I looked around the SuSE KB web site, read the Docs on my Linux drive, : but I can't see what I've done wrong--which means it's probabaly : something simple and stupid! : : Any ideas? : : Thanks! : : -- : : __________________________________________________________ : Another Message From... L. Mark Stone : : Email: LMStone@LMStone.com : Web: http://www.lmstone.com : : : : -- : 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 : :