I have had to boot Linux with a floppy ever since I was forced to
reformat my Win98 drive (hda1).
Before the unfortunate incident which precipitated the reformatting, I
had been using grub - very happily. Now, I have gone through
grub-install many times since then, which gives me a Stage1 Read Error
every time. I have also tried lilo (both graphical and command-line
methods) and klilo. Both of them give me screens full of 10 10 10 10 ...
ad infinitum.
Every time I look for an answer, I am always told the proper method for
installing GRUB and/or LILO. While I am thankful for the advice, I have
gone through both procedures, carefully, in letter-perfect fashion many,
many times, with precisely the same results every time.
My fstab, lilo.conf, and menu.lst have not changed since I had to
reformat; they should not need to, since the drives are configured
exactly the same way as they were when GRUB worked. The last time
somebody asked me to post my menu.lst file so they could see if anything
was wrong with it, I never heard another word about it. So, either there
was nothing interesting about it or I was forgotten.
Imagine my pleasure when I saw a new idea (Civileme's - see below)! I
tried it, and ... guess what? A screen full of 10 10 10 10 ... ad
infinitum. Sigh.
So, here is my menu.lst file again:
timeout 5
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
i18n (hd1,0)/boot/grub/messages
keytable (hd1,0)/boot/us.klt
altconfigfile (hd1,0)/boot/grub/menu.once
default 4
title linux
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-secure root=/dev/hdb1 hdg=ide-scsi
hdd=ide-floppy vga=788
title linux-up
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy
title failsafe
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy
failsafe
title hack
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/vmlinuz-hack root=/dev/hdb1 hdg=ide-scsi
hdd=ide-floppy vga=788
initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd-hack.img
title windows
root (hd0,0)
map (0x81) (0x80)
map (0x80) (0x81)
makeactive
chainloader +1
And my lilo.conf:
boot = /dev/hda
map = /boot/map
timeout = 200
prompt
vga = normal
read-only
image = /boot/vmlinuz-secure
label = linux
append = " hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy"
root = /dev/hdb1
image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = linux-up
append = " hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy"
root = /dev/hdb1
image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = failsafe
append = " hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy failsafe"
root = /dev/hdb1
image = /boot/vmlinuz-hack
label = hack
append = " hdg=ide-scsi hdd=ide-floppy"
root = /dev/hdb1
other = /dev/hda1
label = windows
table=/dev/hda
Oh great Linux masters, can you help ?
Thanks
Jay DeKing
Civileme wrote:
>
> If you do NOT have reiser, then the mbr is probably damaged with respect to
> the new Mobo. To fix this use the 7.1 install CD, hit F1, type "rescue"
> without the quotes, and ... when the system comes up
>
> # mount /dev/hdax /mnt ## where x is the number for your / partition
> # chroot /mnt
> # /sbin/lilo
>
> EVEN if you were using grub, which you obviously were not.
>
> You should then be bootable from the hard disk, take out the CD and type
>
> # reboot
>
> Civileme
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