-- There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
Shawn Latimer wrote: > Hullo all. > > After I got home from work, I turned on my laptop that I had been using > fine mere minutes before, and it keeps putting me into single user mode. What > the heck is wrong? I've fscked my face blue, lilo'd, and tried its boot disk - > that kept giving me a > > boot: > Loading Linux.... > Error 0x10 > boot: linux > Loading Linux.... > Error 0x04 > boot: linux > Loading Linux.... > Error 0x04 > > and it just keeps repeating the error 04. > > Any help very much appriciated. > Shawn, If you have access to a working Linux system, take a look at the documentation in /usr/doc/lilo* . Look for the section 'Disk Error Codes' in the README file. This tells me that the first error (0x10) is a CRC error. The suggested action is to "try booting several times , running the map installer a second time (to put the map file at some other physical location or to write "good data" over the bad spot), mapping out the bad sectors/tracks and, if all else fails, replacing the media.". "0x04 "Sector not found". This typically indicates a geometry mismatch. If you're booting a raw-written disk image, verify whether it was created for disks with the same geometry as the one you're using. If you're booting from a SCSI disk or a large IDE disk, you should check, whether LILO has obtained correct geometry data from the kernel or whether the geometry definition corresponds to the real disk geometry. (See section "Disk geometry".) Removing COMPACT may help too. So may adding LINEAR." Kenneth -- There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
