On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 04:54:04PM +0000, Anthony Fairchild wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently upgraded all packages necessary to install a 2.4.x kernel on my > Debian 2.2 laptop. After downloading, compiling, and installing the 2.4.5 > kernel I rebooted and was greeted with a screen reading only "LIL-". > > I have a boot floppy made when I originally installed and was able to reboot > the machine using that and re-ran lilo after editing lilo.conf to use the > older (2.2.17) kernel, but this didn't fix the problem. I would just boot off > of the floppy and be done with it but unfortunately the kernel on the floppy > does not support my pcmcia ethernet adapter. Now I am in the unenviable > position of running Win2k on an old laptop (painfully slow) so I can get a > network connection. > > If anybody knows how to fix this problem I would appreciate the help. Here is > some further information about the setup if any of it is useful. > > Dual Boot Windows 2000 Pro. - Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 > > Windows boot manager gets control first, hands it off to lilo if you choose > Linux > > Linux boot device is /dev/hda2
>From /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map installer. I'm hesitating a bit here because I haven't worked with Win2k yet but if this were a Win98 box I would try booting with a windows boot disk containing fdisk and run - fdisk /mbr which will rewrite the code for you're mbr. Then boot back into debian with your boot disk and rerun /sbin/lilo. If that doesn't work you could totally blow away your your boot-block with - dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 under debian. Then use "fdisk /mbr" again and then try installing lilo again. I want to stress I can't guarantee the results of this. Make sure you have a backup of you're info on your Windows side before trying. hth, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke