9.0 pro desktop suddenly says "40 40 40 40"
Hi, all -- I was working on my e-machines celeron tower when things suddenly got veeerrrrry slooowwwww... I had mouse trails (briefly) but no keyboard response, and then finally nothing. I did the five-second power key hold and rebooted ... and it came up "40 40 40 40" all down the screen. I left it off for an hour or two (though it always runs and never has a problem) with no change. I pulled a hard drive and tried again and got "01 01 01" instead. I started thinking about RAM... Since then, I have successfully booted from a Linspire CD (Knoppix on this machine is apparently unhappy; I'll figure that out later), run fsck on the slices and seen them happy, and even booted from my backup partition on the second drive. Whew; some things are OK. Now to get this sent and unhook and see if I can boot from my primary after all. But what does "40 40 40" mean, and what caused this? TIA & HANW :-D -- David T-G davidtg@justpickone.org http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
On Sunday 08 May 2005 02:27, David T-G wrote:
But what does "40 40 40" mean, and what caused this?
First of all it means you're using lilo as a boot loader. What '40' means is more uncertain. It is a BIOS error code meaning "seek failure", but the reason for it can be one of a few things. Before this latest reboot, did you change /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo ? Since you can boot from other sources, you could mount your root partition on, say, /mnt/tmp mount <partition> /mnt/tmp chroot /mnt/tmp mount /boot /sbin/lilo -v 5 Be a little bit careful if you're booting from a 2.6 kernel linux, since if you don't have all IDE hard drives, you may end up with the drives in a different order, which would screw up the lilo installation. In this case you may have to change lilo.conf to suit the new disk order. Check before you run Barring that. hopefully this will either fix your problem or tell you what the problem is
On Sunday 08 May 2005 01:27 am, David T-G wrote:
Hi, all --
I was working on my e-machines celeron tower when things suddenly got veeerrrrry slooowwwww... I had mouse trails (briefly) but no keyboard response, and then finally nothing. I did the five-second power key hold and rebooted ... and it came up "40 40 40 40" all down the screen. I left it off for an hour or two (though it always runs and never has a problem) with no change.
This looks like a lilo error - 40 is "seek failure" which might indicate a disk problem. The sudden slowdown might also point that way.
I pulled a hard drive and tried again and got "01 01 01" instead. I started thinking about RAM...
01 is the lilo error for "illegal command" and usually indicates that the second stage of the bootloader can't be found where lilo has been told to look. Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet
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