[aclug-L] Re: boot question

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

According to the LILO documentation, this means:

   LI   The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot 
    loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a 
    geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map 
    installer. 

Have you recently modified any files in /boot?  Compiled a new kernel?
Repartitioned your drive?  Defragmented the drive?

Also I might suggest that you investigate your BIOS settings.
Generally you will want the hard disk access method to be 'LBA' if
such is listed.  I am puzzled at the difference it makes between a
warm and a cold boot, however.  That Should Not Happen.

"Ryan & Jen" <rrupert@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Debian 2.1 system that will initially fail to boot off of IDE hard disk
> (hda1) after a cold boot.  The POST process seems to not  be giving the PC
> access to the MBR or something weird like that.
> I.e. I never see LILO anything   eg. LI:
> I have had boot problems in the past on a Linux box and would atleast see
> LI: or something else like FG:
> If I boot off of the Debian Custom Boot system disk from fd0 and get to
> tty0, perform a warm boot, shutdown -r now, the system will then boot off of
> hard disk no problem.  If the warm boots continue, the system will boot off
> of hard disk.  If the PC is powered down (cold boot again), the
> aforementioned cycle begins.
> Is this a PC issue or can a Linux OS fix be investigated, previous hard disk
> on the same system had never shown this behavior.
> 
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