I've been getting the same error message from LILO: "L 01 01 01..."
I've been getting around it by rebooting. When I turn on my computer, the
first thing I do is Ctrl-Alt-Del. When the computer reboots, LILO runs
without problem. To me the error only happens the first time I boot up my
computer after it has been turned off.
I have not figured out any solution beyound the three-fingered salute, I have
a suspicion that it is caused by my harddrive. Do you, like I, have a large
WDCaviar drive with EZ-Boot or their more modern DataLifeguard? I have no
direct evidence that the drive (it is the second drive on my computer) is the
problem, but (I suspect) it was causing boot trouble even before I installed
Mandrake (I had/have Win98) causing the computer to freeze when Windows was
booting.
My little anecdote.
-Andrew Vick
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>Dev,
>I had a similar problem with LILO on many distributions of Linux. I will
>tell you how I overcame the problem and hopefully you will be able to
>apply it to your system.
>When I did my install of Mandake 7.0-2 I was fortunate enough for it to
>tell me it LILO wouldn't like being installed installed on my HD with my
>Linux partition so far back, so what you have is a few options open to you.
>If you do what I did, you can install Linux on your first partiton (but
>make sure you install Wind'ohs first) which installs LILO in the MBR and
>then Linux is the next OS in the process. It seems to like this and will
>boot fine. Your other option is to allocate about 10MB or so of space at
>the beginning of your HD and use this for your boot software. I have
>heard reports that this will work, though you are better off installing
>Linux to your first partition. Basically, if Linux isn't located within
>the first 1024 cylinders of your HD LILO will have problems booting.
>WInd'ohs will still start up OK if it is not installed on the first
>partition because it doesn't recognise etx2 FS's and so it will believe it
>is still the first OS.
>The exact steps I took were:
>1. PArtition my primary HD into three (two large one small)
>2. Install Wind'ohs on the third one (if you don't format the
>first or second it will pcik up the second as C:)
>3. Install Linux on the first partition and make sure you format it
>(use the second smaller partition for swap space)
>4. When LILO installs it will pick up both Linux and Wind'ohs and will
>boot between both, depending on the choice you make at boot time.
>
>Let me know how you go. Tis worked for me and I can't see why it wouldn't
>work for you. I had about 7 unsuccessful attempts until I tried this,
>which worked like a charm and has run sweet ever since.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Wayne
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>Wayne Petherick
>Criminology Department
>Bond University
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