Re: [aclug-L] LI but no LO

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You need to reinstall LILO.  Boot from a Linux rescue/boot disk, then run
"lilo" at the command prompt, with a valid/correct lilo.conf file in place
(usually in /etc/lilo.conf).

Or... to simply restore it to the original (Win95-only) state, try booting
from a DOS/Windows boot disk, and running "fdisk /mbr".  You should then
be able to boot into Windows as normal without LILO.


On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Karl Juhnke wrote:

> So, I got the RedHat 5.2 CD's (thanks Matt!) last night, and installed.
> Now when I turn on the computer it counts the RAM, sees the hard drives,
> etc., (AMIBIOS) and at the point where it used to say "Starting Windows"
> it says "LI" and hangs.
> 
> Let me back up a step.  The computer has been running Windows 95.  I
> bought and installed a second hard drive for Linux, hoping to dual boot.
> I did back up the most important files from the Windows drive before
> starting the install, but I hadn't the means to back up everything, and to
> make matters worse the computer is my parents', not mine.  If you guys
> can't save my bacon, I won't be allowed to touch the machine until it is
> retired as a doorstop.  :-(
> 
> The installation process was uneventful until I tried to restart the
> computer.  I expect the partitions and packages I chose aren't relevant to
> my problem, just LILO, but I wouldn't know.  When I got to installing
> LILO, the instructions implied that I would not be able to dual boot
> unless I put LILO in the master boot record of hda, so I did.  On the next
> screen I set it to boot by default from "dos" = hda1 and alternatively
> from "linux" = hdb5 (my root partition).  However, it refuses to do
> either.  I never get to a boot prompt.
> 
> The instructions said to make a boot disk and a rescue disk, which I did.
> I don't know what the rescue disk is for, but the boot disk allows me to
> boot from hdb5 and run linux just fine.  XWindows works great.  
> (Indicentally, I have already discovered that the backgammon program sucks
> pondwater.  20-3 my first match, and I expect more if I had known to
> aggressively exploit its weaknesses.  Is there a backgammon program out
> there of any real power?)  The point is, however, my linux boot disk
> doesn't allow me to boot to hda1.
> 
> What is my problem and how might I fix it?  Please please please don't
> tell me I have to reinstall Windows.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -Fritz
> 
> P.S.  John, you may remember my setup from what you did at the
> installfest.  I used the partitions you created, although I forgot how you
> were going to mount them.  You had partitions of 100, 125, 500, 3000, and
> 2000, which I called /, swap, /usr, /var, and /home, respectively.  Is
> that right?  Is it relevant?  I seem to remember you removed EZBIOS from
> both drives, so that wouldn't be relevant any more, right?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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