i've been running mandrake 7.0 for some time,
and after fooling around a bit, managed to mess
up lilo.
lilo now stops booting after typing out LIL-
which apparently means that the map file is corrupted
or the geometry is wrong or something like that.
The suggested fix is to rerun LILO, which i do, but
to no avail. So now, I can only boot from a floppy.
another fix may be to copy a map file from somewhere,
but i don't know where to find one. (I cannot seem to
copy the map file from the floppy, because when i mount
it, i only see the single bz image called vmlinux2.2.14-15mdk)
(besides, i was running vmlinux2.2.14-15mdksecure)
also, using the "linear" option doesn't seem to work.
using a grub boot disk didn't help either...
any suggestions?
my /etc/lilo.conf file looks like this:
boot = /dev/hda1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
timeout = 500
linear
prompt
vga = normal
root = /dev/hda5
read-only
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdksecure
label = linux
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0
label = test
my /boot directory contained a bunch of different
maps files eg. System.map, System.map-2.214-15mdksecure
my original set up from mandrake
did not contain an /etc/lilo.conf file and yet lilo
always booted fine (i guess using the defaults).
Here is how i screwed things up (i am not sure what step
actually messed things up, so here are all of them).
1) the system was perfect...so i began to fix it
2) i decided i wanted to upgrade from the 2.2.14 kernel to
the 2.4.0 kernel
3) before doing anything, i checked that my boot floppy
worked (although i don't know how, i suspect that this is
what caused things to get messed up)
4) after compiling the 2.4 kernel, and modules, i copied the bzimage
to the boot directory.
5) i then rebooting the system, but did not tell lilo about
the new kernel, because i wanted to make sure that things
were still okay
6) it is possible that before rebooting, i ran linuxconf,
and looked at the lilo configuration (which was empty),
but i didn't change anything (perhaps linuxconf decided
to do something anyway?_
so, i have managed to run into problems, and i haven't even
run the new kernel yet....
any help would be appreciated, as i have been fiddling with lilo
and pulling my hair out for some time on this.
thanks,
jonathan
