I have had this problem before as well. I do not know what causes it, although it usually happens after some kind of hardware issue.
Reinstall LILO and it should work fine. I am not extremely familiar with this process, but there are good man pages (man lilo and man lilo.conf). Here are some ideas I have: If it is possible, repeat the way it is installed during Debian setup (I am new to Debian, but I think that just dpkg -i [lilo pakage here] will work). Do configuration options for it and it should ask you the basic questions. The first time I solved this problem by using the "upgrade" feature on a redhat cd, and didn't upgrade anything, but it reinstalled lilo I guess. If that won't work, try /sbin/lilo (what the manpages are about). Back up the configuration file, and do -t and -v with lilo a few times to get a feel for what is going on. This will keep the changes from being committed. By the way, you will need to boot in order to do all of this, a boot floppy will work nicely, or use another computer if you have to. No way around finding something bootable (unfortunately). I have not had this problem in a while. I assumed that the newer versions of lilo are rid of this. What version are you running? Sorry, but I couldn't do as much research on this one, since I am not knowledgable enough to mess with my boot sector when it is working already. If you ever find out the cause, I would really like to know. One time this happened to someone who I had just convinced to set up a linux box (in place of windows) and he hasn't trusted linux much since then I don't think :( I hope this helps, Jeff Davis Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi all > > I tried adding a ULTRA SCSI hard disk to the server (on the separate ULTRA > SCSI channel on the controller), and while the system correctly identifies > all of the attached SCSI devices (including the two other HDDs), it gives > me this message when I connect the ULTRA SCSI drive: > > can't locate boot device > > If I disconnect it, ie. take my system back to exactly the way it was > before, LILO stops at "LI"???!?!?!? > > Does anybody have any idea why this is happening?? > > thanks a lot > Andrew > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]