Re: [PLUG] lilo prints "L" then dies..

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 07:51:16PM -0400, kevin mudrick wrote:
> A friend of mine installed debian (woody) today.  If he tries to boot,
> lilo prints out an "L" and then craps out.  If he boots from the floppy
> he made during the debian install, his system will start and give him a
> command prompt and all.

Sounds like improperly (or not at all) installed boot blocks in the
MBR.

Failing that, plausibly a disk labeling error.

> It is a 20 gig drive.  /etc/lilo.conf has boot=/dev/hda indicating that
> the system needs to read from the mbr, and /dev/hda1 is an 8 meg
> partition (/boot) that has the kernel images, and is marked bootable.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Have you actually run lilo, having booted off the floppy?

(Not that that's a catch-all; it screws up some times.)

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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