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Hello, I have been searching the list archives before submitting my question and since I didn’t find an answer that correctly fit what I’m looking for, I’m now trying a direct question.
I read some messages regarding lilo boot error at boot time where the screen only shows an L_ with the blinking cursor and no disk activity. The hard drive I’m using is a 10GB, so I tried turning LBA on and off in bios with no difference. If I have to redo my lilo configuration file, how do I do this when I can’t get into a shell or editor to do this in the first place?
I have a boot disk, which will boot, but after it tries to load the vmlinuz file, it gets an error: ‘boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.’ When the boot disk first starts, it gives a boot: prompt and a message above it says that you can type ‘linux <params>’ to override linux kernel parameters. Is this where I could get into an editor to edit the linux.conf file? If so, what is the command? When I installed linux (the 3rd time now), I made sure to set the lilo boot location on the MBR as per reading another article on this list.
Oh, when I put the 1st install cd and reboot, and type in ‘linux rescue’, it will get into some kind of shell, but I think it’s reading from the cd because there is no ‘linux.conf’ file in the /etc/ directory as well as many other files referenced in other messages to fix these same problems.
In the floppy boot disk that was made during initial installation, I can see in a configuration file called ‘syslinux.cfg’ the settings that are in the lilo file. The append line reads: iniitrd=initrd.img hdd=ide-scsi root=/dev/hdb2. If this is the only hard drive, shouldn’t it be root=/dev/hdb0? I’ve tried changing it, with the same message.
I would appreciate any help from you guys who have been through all this before.
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