Re: [expert] boot trouble
Hi, The problem lies in the Harddisk geometry the BIOS passes to the LILO loader. Unfortunatly, when booting from a normal install, you sometime get your Harddisks parameteres read in LBA, CHS or Large form, this due to the new read of the Partition tables when you changed the partition informations. If the BIOS gave in the harddisk geometry data in LBA, the system will reread the Harddisk geometry in CHS mode, thus the boot will fail. So, to get this working right, go into the CMOS Setup of your Mainboard, and play around with the Translation Method for the harddisk. Mostly after this error to happen - setting the translation to LARGE or CHS will fix the problem. Had this problem also for some time. Cheers The Smurph On Friday 15 February 2002 04:14, you wrote: I just upgraded to a MSI K7T266 Pro with 1.3 GHZ Athlon and 512MB DDR RAM. LILO won't boot. I get LI and it hangs. An FAQ suggested that /sbin/lilo be executed from a boot disk to correct the problem. I did that and it still won't boot. So, I decided to reinstall 8.1. I still have the problem. Any solutions or recommendations? -- | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : Mobile Diax: +41(0)76 / 490 52 54 | | PGP 2.6.3in Key on Demand : Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | Home-Page: http://www.solsys.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] boot trouble
If you are reinstalling and dont care about whats on the disk then you can wipe the master boot record using a boot floppy and then typing dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda Just leave that running for a couple of seconds and disk should now appear as an unpartitioned unformated disk to the installation program. Of course if you've got data on the disk you want do not do this. Other ideas. On next re-install complete the create boot disk section. Make a sperate /boot partition within the first 2gigs of the disk Make sure the disk is set to LBA in the bios (never too sure bout this one but all mine are). Rob On Friday 15 February 2002 04:14, you wrote: I just upgraded to a MSI K7T266 Pro with 1.3 GHZ Athlon and 512MB DDR RAM. LILO won't boot. I get LI and it hangs. An FAQ suggested that /sbin/lilo be executed from a boot disk to correct the problem. I did that and it still won't boot. So, I decided to reinstall 8.1. I still have the problem. Any solutions or recommendations? Encryption isn't just for secrets anymore... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] boot trouble
Hi, I always seem to have this problem when I don't flush the master boot record. In addition, if I want to install Mandrake on a SCSI drive and I also have IDE drives, the LILO function tends to do the same thing as Lee points out. It would be nice to know why it is doing so, even though I have figured out my own workaround, just to understand. Any advice; thanks. Best Regards, Chris Haidinyak -Original Message-From: Lee Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:14 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [expert] boot trouble I just upgraded to a MSI K7T266 Pro with 1.3 GHZ Athlon and 512MB DDR RAM. LILO won't boot. I get "LI" and it hangs. An FAQ suggested that /sbin/lilo be executed from a boot disk to correct the problem. I did that and it still won't boot. So, I decided to reinstall 8.1. I still have the problem. Any solutions or recommendations?Encryption isn't just for secrets anymore...
Re: [expert] boot trouble
On Friday 15 February 2002 07:54 am, you wrote: Hi, I always seem to have this problem when I don't flush the master boot record. In addition, if I want to install Mandrake on a SCSI drive and I also have IDE drives, the LILO function tends to do the same thing as Lee points out. It would be nice to know why it is doing so, even though I have figured out my own workaround, just to understand. Any advice; thanks. Best Regards, Chris Haidinyak -Original Message- From: Lee Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] boot trouble I just upgraded to a MSI K7T266 Pro with 1.3 GHZ Athlon and 512MB DDR RAM. LILO won't boot. I get LI and it hangs. An FAQ suggested that /sbin/lilo be executed from a boot disk to correct the problem. I did that and it still won't boot. So, I decided to reinstall 8.1. I still have the problem. Any solutions or recommendations? Encryption isn't just for secrets anymore... Just to add my comments, I installed 8.1 (once) using a SCSI drive as the main drive and an ATAPI partitioned as /user and /home/foobar. It worked beautifully.. Then I got too big fer me britches and ended up having to reinstall. OK, N prob, I sez, same system with no changes. After completing the install I had the exact same problems outlined above. Removed the ATAPI drive, reinstalled and every thing was OK wierd!!! So any light on this would help several of us, Thanks all... -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] boot trouble
Even though I hated to do it, I wiped the disk and did a fresh install. Still didn't fix the problem. Joe's nfo helped to get my system to boot but I still can't get the system to boot without a boot disk and passing linux nobiospnp at the boot prompt. At 10:01 AM 2/15/2002 +, Rob wrote: If you are reinstalling and dont care about whats on the disk then you can wipe the master boot record using a boot floppy and then typing dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda Just leave that running for a couple of seconds and disk should now appear as an unpartitioned unformated disk to the installation program. Of course if you've got data on the disk you want do not do this. Other ideas. On next re-install complete the create boot disk section. Make a sperate /boot partition within the first 2gigs of the disk Make sure the disk is set to LBA in the bios (never too sure bout this one but all mine are). Rob On Friday 15 February 2002 04:14, you wrote: I just upgraded to a MSI K7T266 Pro with 1.3 GHZ Athlon and 512MB DDR RAM. LILO won't boot. I get LI and it hangs. An FAQ suggested that /sbin/lilo be executed from a boot disk to correct the problem. I did that and it still won't boot. So, I decided to reinstall 8.1. I still have the problem. Any solutions or recommendations? Encryption isn't just for secrets...
[expert] boot trouble
I just upgraded to a MSI K7T266 Pro with 1.3 GHZ Athlon and 512MB DDR RAM. LILO won't boot. I get LI and it hangs. An FAQ suggested that /sbin/lilo be executed from a boot disk to correct the problem. I did that and it still won't boot. So, I decided to reinstall 8.1. I still have the problem. Any solutions or recommendations? Encryption isn't just for secrets anymore...
Re: [expert] Boot Trouble
Tom Berger wrote: root=/dev/hda5 That's only a start. Plainly, the /etc/fstab will now be incorrect and will have to be altered as well. Best way might be to run the other Linux, mount hda5 and reach in and edit fstab that way. The best way is still to run only from the partition names as installed. He may have to add dummy partitions or re-organise partition order (use only Partition Magic 4.01) to restore things to how they were. -- Ron Stodden
[expert] Boot Trouble
Hello I installed another flavor of Linux, and now cannot get back into Mandrake. I've booting into it from floppy, but the partition table has changed. I need to tell it at the boot prompt that the boot part is at hda5 instead of hda6 now, how can I do this if its possible? Unfortunately I don't have a rescue disk. Thanks Scott
Re: [expert] Boot Trouble
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I installed another flavor of Linux, and now cannot get back into Mandrake. I've booting into it from floppy, but the partition table has changed. I need to tell it at the boot prompt that the boot part is at hda5 instead of hda6 now, how can I do this if its possible? Unfortunately I don't have a rescue disk. Thanks Scott root=/dev/hda5 tom P.S.: Keep in mind that the keyboard isn't mapped at the LiLo prompt! -- "Never trust a Shoggoth!" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] LSTB - "advancing the community", [EMAIL PROTECTED] UMS: +49-(0)89-1488-208756 fon: +49-(0)30-45809013
