-----Original Message----- From: Michael Bartosh [SMTP:bartosh@ocean.tamu.edu] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 4:55 AM At 9:05 PM -0600 3/2/00, Michael Bartosh wrote:
On boot, after all POSTs go ok, lilo is dying. I have gotten something saying CRC error. Otherwise, it does this:
LI-
and freezes.
This is a sudden predicament. I was rebooting and poof- it fails to come up. So I am htinking hardware error... but I can boot therescue CD just fine, and I can mount and manipulate the /, /usr and /var partitions perfectly.
Or- it did once. It is no longer...
Ideas?? Help-
Well, turns out I an make it boot off of some floppies. Like a freesh Suse one. Which wouldn't be bad for a temporary solution- after I boot into the installer I can chose 'bboot installed system, and most everything works-- except my 3com 509 for some reason (works ine in my notmal srtup) and that kernel doesn't have any IPMasq on.
So I tried to be smart.
dd if=/dev/fdo of=/tmp/file.img (switch disks) dd if=/tmp/file.img of=/dev/fd0
mount floppy, replace the old ram disk w/ the one I usually boot from and the kernel w/ my own home brewed (that works fine afaik) but poof- reboot, and it's
LI
again
IIRC LI is an indication that lilo cannot find the kernel image. If I understand lilo correctly, it looks for the kernel at a very specific position on the disk, if it has changed, lilo gets lost. (Or I could be wrong and its a different problem, no matter). Try booting your system as you describe with the install floppys and use Yast to create a boot floppy. See if that floppy will boot. I seem to remember that you can also recompile your kernel using # make bzdisk (instead of bzImage or bzlilo) I think that's right, double check the docs to be sure as I don't have access to a linux box right now (again I could be wrong). If you can get to a bootable system floppy, you're halfway there. Good luck, Tim -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/