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| Michael 2004-11-10, 8:46 pm |
| I'm trying to install RedHat 8 on this box that I picked up and I have this
bizarre issue. For some reason, after installation, I can't seem to get the
thing to boot. LILO sticks at:
L 80 80 80 80 80
I'm not sure what's wrong here. I did a newgroup/Google search and I found
references to the boot drive not being on the same IDE chain, but I don't
think that that's the issue because my hard drive is setup as the primary
master (and shows up as /dev/hda). All of the references I found involved a
user who had their Linux drive setup as a secondary slave etc.
Does anyone know the quick answer to this one? I've used my obviously
limited LILO knowledge and have gotten nowhere.
Thanks!
Michael
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| Lenard 2004-11-10, 8:46 pm |
| On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:40:39 -0800, Michael wrote:
> I'm trying to install RedHat 8 on this box that I picked up and I have
> this bizarre issue. For some reason, after installation, I can't seem
> to get the thing to boot. LILO sticks at:
>
> L 80 80 80 80 80
http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...2002/02/3/14367
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Michael 2004-11-10, 8:46 pm |
| "Lenard" <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.11.11.03.18.47.739875@127.0.0.1...
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:40:39 -0800, Michael wrote:
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> http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...2002/02/3/14367
Hmm... I'm at home now so I can't post the contents of my lilo.conf, but I
can tell you that 1) lilo.conf exists and 2) that it seems quite correct.
Also, this box runs only Linux. It's not a dual boot box. If it matters
(and I'm not sure how it could), it did run Windows (XP) just before I
installed RedHat. But I deleted all of the partitions using fdisk and
created new partitions.
If there was anything left on the MBR, I surely cleared it by running "lilo"
against from the RedHat rescue CD.
I'll post the contents of lilo.conf tomorrow.
Michael
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| Lenard 2004-11-11, 2:47 am |
| On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:38:14 -0800, Michael wrote:
> "Lenard" <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> news:pan.2004.11.11.03.18.47.739875@127.0.0.1...
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> Hmm... I'm at home now so I can't post the contents of my lilo.conf,
> but I can tell you that 1) lilo.conf exists and 2) that it seems quite
> correct.
The reply DMR provided is correct as with his solution, you need to
re-install LILO, just follow his directions for booting the system then
after booting with the floppy as root from the console or xterm session
type; lilo -v
If you boot by the CD at the menu prompt type; linux rescue Read the on
screen messages and use the chroot command then issue the command above to
reinstall lilo
> Also, this box runs only Linux. It's not a dual boot box. If it
> matters (and I'm not sure how it could), it did run Windows (XP) just
> before I installed RedHat. But I deleted all of the partitions using
> fdisk and created new partitions.
> If there was anything left on the MBR, I surely cleared it by running
> "lilo" against from the RedHat rescue CD.
>
> I'll post the contents of lilo.conf tomorrow.
Some feel that GRUB is easier to use and maintain. Also why are you
installing such an outdated version of Linux? Red Hat no longer supports
either version 8.0 or 9 and has not for a fairly long time.
FYI: RHL8 --> RHL9 --> FC1 --> FC2 -->FC3
http://fedora.redhat.com/
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Michael 2004-11-11, 2:47 am |
| "Lenard" <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.11.11.04.09.39.227893@127.0.0.1...
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:38:14 -0800, Michael wrote:
[snip]
> The reply DMR provided is correct as with his solution, you need to
> re-install LILO, just follow his directions for booting the system then
> after booting with the floppy as root from the console or xterm session
> type; lilo -v
Hmm.... I've done this many times already (seemed like an easy fix, but it
hasn't been). I actually haven't done "lilo -v", but just "lilo". I'll
try -v tomorrow and see if there's any magical output.
> If you boot by the CD at the menu prompt type; linux rescue Read the on
> screen messages and use the chroot command then issue the command above to
> reinstall lilo
Yup, this is what I've done, but like I said, I'll try it again. I've never
seen this problem before and I've never had a LILO problem that couldn't be
solved as you described above.
[snip]
> Some feel that GRUB is easier to use and maintain. Also why are you
> installing such an outdated version of Linux? Red Hat no longer supports
> either version 8.0 or 9 and has not for a fairly long time.
I feel more comfortable with lilo as it's what I've always used. The reason
why we're using RedHat 8.0 is because it's the standard platform at the
company I currently work for. The next generation stuff will probably be
FC3, but the current service (to keep consistent) runs solely on RH8.
Would it break if we used FC3? We can say with almost 100% certain that it
wouldn't but it's just a change control thing.
Wish me luck.
[snip]
Michael
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| Lenard 2004-11-11, 7:47 am |
| On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:06:21 -0800, Michael wrote:
<snip>
> Hmm.... I've done this many times already (seemed like an easy fix, but
> it hasn't been). I actually haven't done "lilo -v", but just "lilo".
> I'll try -v tomorrow and see if there's any magical output.
>
>
You should have used 'lilo -v' for the re-install attempts, the increased
verbosity is helpful. You might want to use 'lilo -q' afterwards also.
<snip>
> I feel more comfortable with lilo as it's what I've always used. The
> reason why we're using RedHat 8.0 is because it's the standard platform
> at the company I currently work for. The next generation stuff will
> probably be FC3, but the current service (to keep consistent) runs
> solely on RH8.
Understood......
> Would it break if we used FC3? We can say with almost 100% certain that
> it wouldn't but it's just a change control thing.
Agreed, the change control would add additional security and performance
enhancements (2.4 vs 2.6 kernels, selinux[security] and etc).
> Wish me luck.
Always.
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Lenard 2004-11-11, 7:47 am |
| On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:06:21 -0800, Michael wrote:
<snip>
Almost forgot, Windows XP has been known to cause problems with the MBR
doing a simple fdisk (Linux or Microsoft) sometimes is not enough. You
might want to use 'dd' and blank the MBR then re-install lilo;
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
In some cases you want to blank the entire MBR (covers the partition info
also); dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 , and start a fresh
install of RHL8.0
> Wish me luck.
HTH
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Michael 2004-11-11, 8:46 pm |
| "Lenard" <lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.11.11.14.42.44.547949@127.0.0.1...
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:06:21 -0800, Michael wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> Almost forgot, Windows XP has been known to cause problems with the MBR
> doing a simple fdisk (Linux or Microsoft) sometimes is not enough. You
> might want to use 'dd' and blank the MBR then re-install lilo;
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
This had me excited, but it didn't work.
> In some cases you want to blank the entire MBR (covers the partition info
> also); dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 , and start a fresh
> install of RHL8.0
Amazing....this didn't work either.
These are just dev servers.... I'm going to make a boot floppy and just
mount the hard drive partitions from there...
Michael
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| Michael 2004-11-11, 8:46 pm |
| "Michael" <michaeln@twentyten.org> wrote in message
news:10p7gt08i1qebdf@corp.supernews.com...
[snip]
> These are just dev servers.... I'm going to make a boot floppy and just
> mount the hard drive partitions from there...
Actually, I just broke down and installed GRUB. It worked fine. It's sort
of sad because I love LILO and I've never seen this probably before. Maybe
I shouldn't love it as much, but I'd prefer to blame this issue on RedHat.
;-)
Michael
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| Lenard 2004-11-11, 8:46 pm |
| On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:04:26 -0800, Michael wrote:
> Actually, I just broke down and installed GRUB. It worked fine. It's
> sort of sad because I love LILO and I've never seen this probably
> before. Maybe I shouldn't love it as much, but I'd prefer to blame this
> issue on RedHat. ;-)
Good, glad to hear the system now boots. If it makes you feel better go
ahead and blame it on RedHat, they prefer GRUB anyhow. So do I in this
matter ;-)
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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