Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on behalf of; Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > I have just been rearranging all my partitions, and now it looks like the > > most recent change is messing my system. A shortened version of the first > > couple post-post lines is: > > > > L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 > > 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 > > Lilo manual: > > If the BIOS signals an error when LILO is trying to load a boot image, the > respective error code is displayed. The following BIOS error codes are > known: > > [...] > > 0x40 "Seek failure". This might be a media problem. Try booting > again. > > Hmm. That's not very helpful.
It is if you boot the next time with a boot floppy (then identify the problem). With this problem, as it turned out, in lilo.conf the boot device was set to /dev/hda5, and that is a logical partition. It seems like my computer didn't like that. It booted properly after changing boot back to /dev/hda. Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
