was the box moved while it was off? does it (or can you set the BIOS so that
it does) run the memory test at boot (before any hard drives are seen)?
counting all the mem? maybe a memeory chip is loose in the socket? maybe lilo
is lunched... but you should still let the memory be counted at boot and let
us know what number it shows.
On Friday 13 July 2001 03:11, Jordan Triebwasser wrote:
> Here's the situation:
> I had my mandrake box off for about a week, I go to turn it on yesterday
> and it boots and just says LIL. I check the web, says it means it can't
> load the descriptor table from the map file. I have no idea what that
> means, but it gives some suggestions on how to fix it, like reinstall lilo.
> So I attempt to boot from a floppy disk, and get an error msg, it says I
> need 608k for low dos ram to boot, and hold down crtl next time I boot to
> skip the error msg. I check the bios, and it says I only have 512 free. I
> then attempt to boot off the cdrom, again same error.
> I hold down ctrl on the next boot off the cdrom, I figure I'll just
> reinstall it. But I get an error, something like
> boot: could not find kernel linux. At the boot prompt I type 'rescue', and
> get boot: could not find kernel rescue.
> Mandrake is the only OS on that computer. The only difference when I turned
> it off a week ago, till now was I plugged it into a kvm. A few days before
> I shut it down, I installed more simms, bringing the total ram up to
> 128megs, it worked fine for a couple days, but then I had to shut it off
> since I was going away.
>
> So my questions are, is it LILO that is screwed up, or the fact that I only
> have 512 free is screwing up LILO. A friend said I could have a virus that
> is eating up the low ram, or screwed up the MBR, so I ran norton and it
> found nothing. I have no idea how much low ram I had before, but since I
> installed mandrake 3 times, and was running for a month, I assume it was
> more then 608, did 96 or more just rot away? I haven't changed anything in
> the bios, or done anything with the kernel. I am really at a lose here.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> - Jordan
