Guest batmike Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 I recently put Win2000 and Mandrake 9 on my computer on separate hard drives. Everything was working fine after i shut down from linux today, but when i next turned it on it totally screwed up, and i'm not sure if i did something or it just happened by itself. The computer turns on, it gets past checking the BIOS, then when Lilo is supposed to start up all it shows is: " L 99 99 99 99 99 99 ... " adding a 99 to the screen every time it keeps accessing my cd burner until i reboot. It doesnt let me get to the boot loader at all. I can get into mandrake just fine with the emergency disk, so i dont think its a hardware problem, but i would rather not have to use the disk every time to run the computer. I even formatted the hard drive and reinstalled Mandrake, thinking if it was a setting i messed with it would go back to normal, but it still does the exact same thing. So does anyone know what the problem is? I have no clue what it is as i am just a beginner to linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=5591 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 Have you tried reinstalling lilo? Boot off of CD1, F1 , type rescue, mount partitions (menu), goto console, and type chroot /mnt Then type lilo If there are error messages, then you need to do some investigating.. Try posting /etc/fstab /etc/lilo.conf if you need too.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 batmike reinstalled mandrake....thus, (I'd assume) reinstalled lilo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 true.. Here's a better explanation of 99 99 http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_...Q_20467778.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 I had a similar problem trying to install 9.1 on my second HD. Seems like I couldn't just reinstall lilo in rescue mode with lilo -v, I had to add another option. Maybe it was lilo -M ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Read_Icculus Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 I've had the same thing happen on two boxes after I had futzed around quite a bit with the MBR. After I zeroed out the HD with Autoclave things were back to normal, but I got the error on my main machine and as I've got a few partitions and OSs already installed on it I just set up LILO on a floppy and leave it in all the time, as I'd rather not have to zero out everything and reinstall 3 operating systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 I had similar probs in install but once sucessfully installed redoing lilo from the boot prompt worked fine. Steve - If you have it set for the mbr then its 'probably' (don't sue me) safe to just check the lilo.conf and rerun lilo instead of the boot floppy thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest batmike Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 if this is just a problem with lilo and i were to switch to grub, could that fix the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 could...and has for me b4, but in my recent case and recent misery, only a low level format did the trick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 Did you check your /etc/lilo.conf file to make sure it was correct, then go into rescue mode with Disk 1 and go to console and type: lilo -M ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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