lilo prompt L 01 01 .....

[Michael Fan]

Hi,

I have A7V and a DiamondMax Plus 45 30.7G disk attached as hdb
(temporally. will move to ATA100 when I figure out how. almost now).
Booted from RH7 CD and installed it. Partition as
hdb1 30M on /boot.
hdb5 12G msdos blank.
hdb6 256M as swap
hdb7 remaining space as /
lilo installed on MBR
now boot from hard disk and I got:
L 01 01 ....(endless 01)
Boot from floppy is ok. According to Lilo User Guide 0x01 is "Illegal
command" and may indicate an attempt to access a disk which is not
supported by the BIOS. Not sure, /boot is at the beginning of the disk,
should be ok?
Out of clue now. Please help.

Michael

[Faux_Pseudo]

taken from linux magazine nov 2000 pg100 -- by Gaylen Brown

I have seen this error before. In my experienc, ethe quickest
way to fix this is to use the linear optionwhen installing LILO. The
first thing you'lll have to do is reboot your system using a rescue disk.
Then, run the LILO command as follows

/sbin/lilo/ -l -v

That might solve your problem. This causes LILO to run in
linear mode -l, with verbose output -v, which allows you to se what the
LILO command is actually doing. That way, if you are still encountering
any odd problems while running LILO, this will allow you to see it on
screen and might just lead you to the root of the problem.

--(Once apon a time, in comp.os.linux.setup,)--
--(Michael Fan said it like only they can.)--

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[Eric]

Michael Fan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have A7V and a DiamondMax Plus 45 30.7G disk attached as hdb
> (temporally. will move to ATA100 when I figure out how. almost now).
> Booted from RH7 CD and installed it. Partition as
> hdb1 30M on /boot.
> hdb5 12G msdos blank.
> hdb6 256M as swap
> hdb7 remaining space as /
> lilo installed on MBR
> now boot from hard disk and I got:
> L 01 01 ....(endless 01)
> Boot from floppy is ok. According to Lilo User Guide 0x01 is "Illegal
> command" and may indicate an attempt to access a disk which is not
> supported by the BIOS. Not sure, /boot is at the beginning of the disk,
> should be ok?
> Out of clue now. Please help.

Do as Faux_pseudo described, or supply the HDD C/H/S values when booting
The error 0x01 indicates a geometry mismatch (IIRC), supplying these
values would solve that.

Eric