From jkyllo@usa.net Sat Sep 2 22:15:05 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id WAA45956 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 22:15:05 -0700 Received: from nwcst314.netaddress.usa.net (nwcst314.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.23.59]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with SMTP id WAA08489 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 22:15:04 -0700 Received: (qmail 11970 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Sep 2000 05:15:03 -0000 Message-ID: <20000903051503.11969.qmail@nwcst314.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.23.59 by nwcst314 for [216.162.199.65] via web-mailer(34FM.0700.4.03) on Sun Sep 3 05:15:03 GMT 2000 Date: 2 Sep 00 22:15:03 PDT From: J Kyllo To: linux@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: LILO boot error messages]] X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (34FM.0700.4.03) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks for the help, it turns out that the linear parameter worked. I'd forgotten that the last time I did something like this I had made sure to= put the kernel at the beginning of the drive and didn't even think about usin= g a /boot partition because the disk is so small. Anyway, it is now running = as a happy firewall and all that! Thanks again. -Jeff Mike wrote: > Recently I bought most of a new computer and yanked the missing parts (= one > of the IDE drives and the floppy drive) from my Linux workstation. Aft= er > having done so I suffered a similar problem with LILO. At that time I = had > been using a LILO boot disk (I got a new floppy drive for the Linux box= ) > and after starting to boot I got the neverending '01 01 01 01' garbage.= = > I at first assumed I had a bad floppy drive, so I put the old one back = in. = > Didn't work. Then I figured that the floppy had been corrupted somehow= =2E = > I made a new floppy, booted, and installed LILO on the MBR. After that= it > worked fine, so I never figured out why the boot floppy stopped working= > after I removed the (secondary) IDE drive and replaced the floppy drive= =2E > = > You said you ran LILO "in this state" but I'm not quite sure what that > means. If you haven't done so, try double checking your /etc/lilo.conf= > (have you tried the 'linear' keyword?) and then run '/sbin/lilo' to mak= e > sure the MBR is up to date. > = > --------------------------- > -=3D<(| mike@boobaz.net |)>=3D- > = > On 30 Aug 2000, J Kyllo wrote: > = > |Well, I haven't specifically checked, but the drive is only a 540MB dr= ive and > |I don't think it even has that many cylinders but thanks for the tip! > | > |-Jeff > | > |Jeff Silverman wrote: > | > |> --------------------------------------------- = > |> Attachment: = > |> MIME Type: multipart/alternative = > |> --------------------------------------------- = > |> J Kyllo wrote: > |> = > |> > I recently built a machine to use as our firewall by putting the harddrive > |in > |> > my big box to do the compiling and then sticking the drive into th= e > |actual > |> > firewall machine. (Yes, I did set the target for compiling.) Any= way, > |when > |> > LILO loads, I only get 'LI' and a couple times I've just gotten 'L= 01 01 > |01 01 > |> > 01 01 01 ad infinitum'. I looked around and found out what stop a= t LI > |means > |> > but it didn't really help me to diagnose the problem. If I put in= a > |floppy > |> > disk with the syslinux boot-loader, the same kernel as the one on = the > |> > harddrive, and a config file to use /dev/hda1 as it's root, it all= works > |fine. > |> > I also ran lilo in this state to make sure it was working properl= y and > |it > |> > hasn't done anything different. Any ideas? > |> > > |> > Thanks, > |> > Jeff > |> > > |> > __________________________________________________________________= __ > |> > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D1 > |> = > |> You should make sure that all of the files in /boot are located in > |cylinders > |> numbered < 1023. What I like to do is make a 10 MB /boot partition = in > |/dev/hda1 > |> to make sure. The problem is a fundemental design flaw in IDE disk drives: > |it > |> never occurred to the peole who designed the boot ROMs that somebody= would > |hang > |> big disks on 'em. > |> = > |> Jeff > |> = > |> = > |> -- > |> Jeff Silverman, sysadmin for the Research Computing Systems (RCS) > |> University of Washington, School of Engineering, Electrical Engineer= ing > |Dept. > |> Box 352500, Seattle, WA, 98125-2500 FAX: (206) 221-5264 Phone (206) > |543-9378 > |> jeffs@rcs.ee.washington.edu http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/~jeffs > |> = > |> = > | > | > |____________________________________________________________________ > |Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N= =3D1 > | ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 .