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Bob Palank

2005-01-15, 5:49 pm

Well, I do the simple or minimal linux install which is the first choice on
the RH 7 install choices list. All goes well and I get the Congratualtions
.....
However, on the reboot, I see only LI of LILO and it dies there.

If there are no errors on the install, shouldn't LILO run without any errors
?

BR
Bob Palank


Brian Brunner

2005-01-16, 5:49 pm

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, "Bob Palank" <bob@stlcc.org> wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]

This indicates that the MBR found the lilo first stage which found the
second stage, but the second stage could not execute.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/a1483.html

Your clock is probably wrong


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SNAKY

2005-01-16, 5:49 pm

Op Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:02:43 -0600, schreef Bob Palank:

> Well, I do the simple or minimal linux install which is the first choice on
> the RH 7 install choices list. All goes well and I get the Congratualtions
> ....
> However, on the reboot, I see only LI of LILO and it dies there.
>
> If there are no errors on the install, shouldn't LILO run without any errors
> ?
>
> BR
> Bob Palank

well..
it looks like you went over another install that included lilo.
first try reformatting the harddisk.. if that doesnt work it seems likely
that the previous install was in the master boot record and this one at
the 1st sector of your harddisk. the MBR tells your system to load lilo
from a partition where lilo used to be but its not there anymore..

so the best idea is prolly to remake a new boot sector..
I know Windows XP (when booting from cd in rescue) can restore it to
normal with the command fixmbr there are also commands for it in dos
but I dont know them... just look on google for dos commands or linux or
whatever you prefer to fix the master boot record (MBR) that should fix
the problem for you
I personally used the fixmbr option with the XP cd to fix the problem I
got after installing RH 7.2

good luck and I hope this information helps..

Simon Loggen
SNAKY

2005-01-18, 7:51 am

I found out that with a win98 bootdisk the command "fdisk /mbr" worked
as well


Op Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:09:19 +0000, schreef SNAKY:

> Op Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:02:43 -0600, schreef Bob Palank:
>
> well..
> it looks like you went over another install that included lilo.
> first try reformatting the harddisk.. if that doesnt work it seems likely
> that the previous install was in the master boot record and this one at
> the 1st sector of your harddisk. the MBR tells your system to load lilo
> from a partition where lilo used to be but its not there anymore..
>
> so the best idea is prolly to remake a new boot sector..
> I know Windows XP (when booting from cd in rescue) can restore it to
> normal with the command fixmbr there are also commands for it in dos
> but I dont know them... just look on google for dos commands or linux or
> whatever you prefer to fix the master boot record (MBR) that should fix
> the problem for you
> I personally used the fixmbr option with the XP cd to fix the problem I
> got after installing RH 7.2
>
> good luck and I hope this information helps..
>
> Simon Loggen




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