yay the good old LI problem
there is a web page that tells you waht these errors mean.. LI means
something is fraggged in the partition table on recall.. hrmm neway if that
is it the best tool i have seen that comes on a dos boot disk is efdisk - if
you search google for both your error and efdisk download then you will find
info. I have found efdisk really good at clearing out partitions and
starting from scratch.
Generally if i get a LI, and linux fdisking and reformatting and
reinstalling doesnt fix it, then its bad sector in partition table or hdd
dont work with bios sort of deal...
find that lilo error page is a good start
dave
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Subject: [SLUG] Lilo wierdness ..
Hey all ..
Was wondering if any of you could help with the following lilo wierdness
Just installed a new harddrive and new clean Debian install. Although
configuring Lilo ... when my pc boots all I get is "LI" of the usual
"LILO:" prompt and lilo just halts.
My /hda1 partition is DOS .. so I put in a DOS bootdisk ... fdisk /mbr
to clean the mbr and then tried resetting up lilo again from linux (via
bootdisk) and same thing happened.
My Linux / partition is on /dev/hdd1 .. and when using fdisk to view the
partition table it gave me a warning re lilo may not work with it due to
cylinders > 1024? But my old hd had 4000+ cylinders and it worked fine ..
.. lilo is installed on /dev/hda though so it shouldnt matter i thought.
Here follows some additional info .. stats and conf ..
if anyone has any ideas I'd be greatful.
>cat lilo.conf
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot=/dev/hda
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image=/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hdd1
label=Linux
read-only# Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other=/dev/hda1
label=Dos
table=/dev/hda
# DOS bootable partition config ends
>dmesg |grep -i hd
hda: Maxtor 7850 AR, 814MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=827/32/63
hdb: WDC AC31600H, 1549MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=787/64/63, DMA
hdc: QUANTUM SIROCCO2550A, 2445MB w/75kB Cache, CHS=4969/16/63, DMA
hdd: FUJITSU MPE3136AT, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, DMA
>fdisk /dev/hda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 827 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 488 491872+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 489 519 31248 82 Linux swap
Command (m for help): q
>fdisk /dev/hdd
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 16383.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16383 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 2032 1024096+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdd2 2033 3048 512064 83 Linux
/dev/hdd3 3049 4064 512064 83 Linux
/dev/hdd4 4065 16383 6208776 5 Extended
/dev/hdd5 4065 5080 512032+ 83 Linux
Command (m for help): q
When I try and run "lilo" i get the following warning errors :
>lilo
Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
Added Linux *
Added Dos
Thanks in advance ..
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