Re: Problem Booting After Install

[Kent West]

Scott MacMaster wrote:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Problem Booting After Install

 

Scott MacMaster wrote:

   

I was able to view the contents of lilo.conf.  Here are the contents

lba32
boot=/dev/hdb1
root=/dev/hdb1
install=/boot/boot-menu.b
map=/boot/map
delay=20
vga=normal
default=Linux
image=/vmlinuz
    label=Linux
    read-only
image=/vmlinuz.old
    label=LinuxOLD
    read-only
    optional
         

This is the output lilo gives:

Warning: /dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk
Added Linux *
Skipping /vmlinuz.old
However, it still doesn't work.  After the screen goes blank this is the
output I get (when I try to boot off the hd).
MBR

L 01 01 01...
01 01 01...
01 01 01...
01 01 01...
.
.
.
     

     

Try changing the line:

boot=/dev/hdb1

to
boot=/dev/hdb
and rerun lilo.
   

This didn't work.  I got the same results as before, except it's displaying
40 instead of 01.
 

Can your BIOS boot off the slave of the primary controller? I assume it 
can, since you're getting partial results, but still, had to ask.

Has this disk every been "infected" with any non-standard boot loaders, 
like a boot sector virus, or like Bootworks (from Altiris), etc?

You might try "install-mbr /dev/hdb", although I don't really understand 
the ins-and-outs of this utility (see "man install-mbr"), so I'm not 
sure what the result will be. Still, I'd try it.

--
Kent


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