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humbletech99
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 Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:32 pm Post subject: Lilo L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 |
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Hi, one of my owrk colleagues just installed another hard drive in a linux server and after rebooting, it came back up past POST and gave:
L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99...
and just hung there.
The boot loader is Lilo, and I believe it has halted because of a problem in the second stage boot loader. I'm more of a grub person that Lilo, but need to fix this quick...
any ideas? ( I was thinking of live cd booting and then running lilo again on the mbr to sort it, what do you recon? ) |
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AliasXZ
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:49 pm Post subject: Re: Lilo L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 |
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| humbletech99 wrote: | | I'm more of a grub person that Lilo, but need to fix this quick... |
just use grub then or post the lilo.conf - he's made a mistake in the lilo.conf
I also believe that you have to mark the boot partition as bootable in fdisk
and yeh - overwrite the MBR using livecd - wont cause anymore harm than what there is already
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| thanks for the advice, I've sorted it by redoing the mbr from a chrooted env and making sure that bios points to that disk. |
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| Boy, I remember getting that error after something had happened to my hard disk (I think my comp crashed during a kernel re-build) and it somehow screwwed up BOTH Linux and Windows. I got the error and really freaked out, but I believe that it just means you have to re-run lilo. |
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