On Saturday 20 April 2002 00:44, Alfredo Cole wrote:
Hi:
I have recently bought a new computer P4 1.4 Ghz and a 40 Gb HD. It comes with WinME preinstalled, so I thought I'd do a dual boot installation with SuSE 7.2 personal. After the installation completed, and I rebooted the system, all I got was a screen full of "01" and no load. Using the CD1, I am able to load into Linux, but no way to do Windows. I tried Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack, and it works fine, so I went back and did SuSE one more time. No luck. Is this a LILO/SuSE problem? Any workarounds? Thank you.
L01 is an error that usually indicates wrong disk geometry settings in lilo. When you boot into linux using the CD, edit /etc/lilo.conf and look for a line with either "linear" or "lba32" on it. I'm guessing you have "lba32". Try changing that to read "linear", then run /sbin/lilo and try rebooting. For more information on the lilo error codes, run "gv /usr/share/doc/packages/lilo/user.ps.gz". On page 44 is a list of the possible errors that can occur and what they mean. Anders