Damon, I'm the original poster and I agree with you that removing a non-bootable device shouldn't have caused this problem, as long as I cleaned up fstab (which I did) and reinstalled LILO exactly where it was before. It's baffling for sure! Especially when the SuSE DVD can boot the installed system just fine! But I took the BFI way out (Brute Force and Ignorance) and just reinstalled Linux. But this time, I created a small /boot partition, well within the first 1024 cylinders and installed LILO there. On Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:48 am, Damon Register wrote:
Oliver Ob wrote:
"L. Mark Stone" schrieb:
And that's when I get nothing but a screenful of "01 01 01 01..."
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Look into BIOS for the section on HD adressing. LBA/CHS?
I am a little puzzled at the responses to this post. All the replies are talking about bios but it seems that the problem is elsewhere. The original poster said that he just removed a drive which means that the remaining drives already worked with his bios. The problem is that devices change. To fix this problem, one will have to boot the rescue system and tamper with /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab to show the new devices. I have had to do this before and this procedure has worked for me.
Damon Register
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