Low!! On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 08:42:49AM -0500, Brian Boonstra wrote: > Hi > > I can no longer boot into Debian! I installed IE5 in my WinNT > partition, and after that Lilo would boot WinNT at the prompt, but hang on > trying to boot Linux. Then after some fiddling it broke completely, giving > me the letters LI (in the same position as I previously saw a whole LILO > prompt), and the system hung. > I reckoned Lilo was the problem, and installed a different boot > loader (PQBoot from Powerquest). Now I can still boot into WinNT, but if I > try to boot Linux, I get the same LI hang I had when Lilo was the boot > loader. > > > > I tried booting off the CD, activating my partitions, and > reinstalling LILO, but it win't install. I then tried to create a boot > floppy, and I can't do that either. > > > I have a 7.5 GB SCSI system with 4 primary partitions. In order > they are: DOS, WinNT, swap, ext2. I was running potato with a > custom-compiled kernel that I had set up with dpkg-kernel.
from lilo Manual: LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. This is all i am able to say... It is strange that you use LILO to load your NT... As it is explained in a special HOWTO (NT-LOADER-HOWTO ?? Linux-and-NT-HOWTO ?? can't remember its name...) it says that you should use the NT loader to boot NT and a special entry in a .ini file + a copy of Linux partition bootsector put in C:\ will handle the case... It seems that your setup differs from what is recommended and NT has garbled some of carefully setup LILO sectors... hope this helps, Marcin -- -------------------------------- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------