On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:01:15 +0100, BenEBoy ben@psychoferret.co.uk wrote:
(Ted Harding) wrote:
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).
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.
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!
Ahhhh, so the 'LI' was an error message then? That was obvious, huh? ;-)
I'll back up my data and run fsck then, just in case my hard drive is on the way out.
(good job I bought some blank DVD's yesterday)
cheers,
BenE
Exactly the same happened to me a month ago, running sarge: on a reboot I got as far as "LI" then nothing, I could think of no reason why it had happened. I had to use a knoppix disk to rerun LILO and it has been fine since. I thought the hard drive might be failing and got a new one. Then when I upgraded a box last week from woody to sarge, the LILO rewrote the root mount point as /dev/sda2 instead of /dev/sda1. Again, this made no sense, but it must have been correct before the upgrade and I hadn't been prompted to change parameters during. Jen