On Tue, 4 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think I may have a serious problem.
>
> When I reboot my machine the LILO prompt gets as far as LI and
> then stops.
>
> The machine has win98 on the primary master hd and RH6 which I
> installed last night on the Primary Slave. It has rebooted since to
> Win 98 at least a couple of times successfully and to Red Hat a
> couple of times or more.
>
> I tried rebooting from my RH6 Custom boot disk. It produced the
> full LILO prompt and then said,
> Press return or wait 10 seconds to boot your RedHat Linux from
> /dev/hdb7. If you want to use a rescue disk, type "rescue" now.
> boot:
>
> When I hit enter it says:
>
> Loading Linux
> Error 0x10
>
> When I type rescue I get the same error.
>
> So, then I rebooted from a win98 rescue disk. I can read the
> directory of the C drive that win98 lives on and running scan disk
> produced an OK to everything except it gave a "free space
> incorrect" error which it corrected.
>
> After that, it still stops part way through the LILO prompt.
>
> LILO is on the C drive where win98 lives.
>
> My hunch is that win98 overwrote it somehow although I don't know
> why as nothing new has been installed there or changed since I
> last used each OS successfully.
It is not necessary for win98 to overwrite LILO. It has only to move
its files. The defrag program it probably runs in the background is
ideal for the purpose. At boot time, lilo has _no_ filesystem, so it
must keep physical pointers to its map file and from there to its
image file(s). You may have to remake your install floppies on good
media (rawrite has _no_ tolerance for bad blocks) in order to get enough
of a system to reinstall lilo. I'd install it on the linux partition,
but if you insist on putting it on c:, at least set the system flag on
the map and image and boot.b files to try and prevent them being moved.
There's no reason lilo can't boot from the mbr, but its map and image
files are better off in a real (FAT-Free) filesystem. I think everybody
should read the README that comes with the lilo source. It is long, but
very helpful to understand how the thing works.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
> > Golly, I hope there is a solution to this. Anyone know what it is?
>
> Please cc any responses to my email address as I am using
> another machine and may not find responses addressed only to
> the list.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ken Walker
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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