My 10 GB Toshiba hard disc crashed recently (for the second time!). I
had Win 98, NT and Linux installed on it. Linux was booted by the NT
bootloader which worked fine.
Now, till I get my replacement hard disc, I have installed my older 2
GB Toshiba into the notebook. I put only Linux on it because there's no
place for Win on 2 GB! ;-)
Ok, everything went fine, I installed my backup without any problems.
But now, I have a major problem with LILO: I don't get my notebook to
boot into Linux. I have to use a boot floppy every time. That's mostly
annoying!
When the notebook wants to boot from the hard disc, I get:
Insert Boot-Disk and press any key
Hmm.
I've put together a few pieces of information that I thought would be
useful in order to investigate my problem:
pii233:~# hdparm -g /dev/hda | grep sectors
geometry = 525/128/63, sectors = 4233600, start = 0
pii233:~# hdparm -i /dev/hda | grep LBAsects
CurCHS=4200/16/63, CurSects=4233600, LBA=yes, LBAsects=4233600
pii233:~# dmesg | grep hda
hda: TOSHIBA MK2110MAT, ATA DISK drive
hda: TOSHIBA MK2110MAT, 2067MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=525/128/63
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
pii233:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3 12064+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4 36 133056 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 37 525 1971648 83 Linux
pii233:~# cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda3
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
linear
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=Linux-2.2.x
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz.old
label=Linux-Old
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36
label=Linux-2.0.36
read-only
pii233:~# dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 | hex
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
0x00000000: fa eb 6c 00 00 00 4c 49 - 4c 4f 01 00 14 00 ff ff ��l@@@LILOA@T@..
0x00000010: 24 00 00 00 1b 37 bc 38 - 22 10 c0 00 01 23 10 c0 $@@@[7.8"P.@A#P.
0x00000020: 00 01 21 10 c0 00 01 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 25 @A!P.@A@@@@@@@@%
0x00000030: 10 c0 00 01 12 04 c0 00 - 01 13 04 c0 00 01 14 04 P.@ARD.@ASD.@ATD
0x00000040: c0 00 01 15 04 c0 00 01 - 16 04 c0 00 01 17 04 c0 .@AUD.@AVD.@AWD.
0x00000050: 00 01 18 04 c0 00 01 19 - 04 c0 00 01 00 00 00 00 @AXD.@AYD.@A@@@@
0x00000060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@��
0x00000070: c0 07 8e d8 8c 06 6a 00 - 89 36 68 00 89 1e 6c 00 .G�[email protected]@.^l@
0x00000080: 88 16 6e 00 b8 00 9a 8e - c0 b9 00 01 29 f6 29 ff .Vn@.@.�..@A).).
0x00000090: fc f3 a5 ea 98 00 00 9a - fa 8e d8 8e c0 bc 00 b0 ���.@@..�.�..@��
0x000000a0: b8 00 90 8e d0 fb b0 0d - e8 57 00 b0 0a e8 52 00 .@.�.��[email protected]@
0x000000b0: b0 4c e8 4d 00 be 34 00 - bb 00 10 fc ad 89 c1 ad [email protected]@.@P��.��
0x000000c0: 89 c2 09 c8 74 20 46 e8 - 43 00 72 06 81 c3 00 02 [EMAIL PROTECTED]@B
0x000000d0: eb ea 50 b0 20 e8 2a 00 - 58 88 e0 e8 12 00 31 c0 ��P..*@X.��R@1.
0x000000e0: 88 c2 cd 13 eb cf b0 49 - e8 17 00 ea 00 00 00 9b .��S��.I.W@.@@@.
0x000000f0: 50 c0 e8 04 e8 01 00 58 - 24 0f 04 30 3c 3a 72 02 P��D.A@X$OD0<:rB
0x00000100: 04 07 30 ff b4 0e cd 10 - c3 5a 59 5b c3 f6 c2 40 DG0..N.P.�����.�
0x00000110: 74 54 80 e2 bf 53 51 52 - b4 08 cd 13 72 eb 88 f0 t�.����.H.Sr...
0x00000120: 5a 88 16 73 01 88 f2 30 - f6 51 86 cd d0 c5 d0 c5 �.VsA..�.�.����.
0x00000130: 80 e5 03 89 0e 71 01 59 - 83 e1 3f f6 e1 01 c8 93 ..C.NqA�..���A..
0x00000140: 58 f7 f3 92 f6 f1 fe c4 - 88 26 74 01 92 88 d6 8a ���.����.�tA....
0x00000150: 16 73 01 3b 06 71 01 77 - 13 86 c4 d0 c8 d0 c8 0a VsA�FqAwS.����.J
0x00000160: 06 74 01 89 c1 5b b8 01 - 02 cd 13 c3 5b 31 c0 f9 FtA..[.AB.S.[1��
0x00000170: c3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
0x00000180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
0x00000190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
0x000001a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
0x000001b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 01 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@.A
0x000001c0: 01 00 83 7f 3f 02 3f 00 - 00 00 41 5e 00 00 00 00 A@.??B?@@@A^@@@@
0x000001d0: 01 03 82 7f 3f 23 80 5e - 00 00 80 0f 04 00 00 00 AC.??#.^@@.OD@@@
0x000001e0: 01 24 83 7f bf 0c 00 6e - 04 00 80 2b 3c 00 00 00 A$.?.L@nD@.+<@@@
0x000001f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa @@@@@@@@@@@@@@U.
So it looks like LILO /is/ installed in the MBR. Why then the "Insert
Boot-Disk and press any key" message?
BTW: I don't have any options in the BIOS concerning the hard disc. So
I can't switch on/off special modes for the hard disc. (Just in case you
suggest something like this!)
If somebody could give me any kind of advice what might be wrong and
how I can get LILO to boot from my hard disc, I'd be very happy! :-)
Thanks in advance!
Greetings,
Stefan.
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Stefan Bellon * <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * <http://www.sbellon.de/>
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