On 26-Oct-04 BenEBoy wrote:
I turned my computer on today but it stopped whilst trying to load lilo (black screen with 'LI' at the top left. It usually says 'LILO 2.whatever).
After discovering the recovery disk section of the debian install CD I managed to get everything working again, but was wondering if someone might be able to suggest why it happened (and what I should do now)?
I'm running a reasonably up to date sarge (apt-get upgraded last week) and haven't booted into windows for ages so I don't think it can be anything to do with that). The harddrive is about 8 months old and it isn't making any funny noises).
Any suggestions please?
The LILO User Guide says:
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.
(search your system for User_Guide.ps ; the above quote is on p.42 of the version I have; 'locate lilo | grep User' should find it).
This doesn't explain why it should happen when you just boot up normally. Maybe it's something to do with your recent upgrade, or maybe a hardware hiccup. Keep an eye on things!
Good luck! Ted.
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