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Title: LILO fails: Error-messages and their interpretation

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LILO fails: Error-messages and their interpretation

Symptom:

When booting with LILO, the machine crashes after a part of the word LILO appeared on the screen.

Interpretation

The LILO start-up code consists of two parts : The "first stage" in a bootsector and the "second stage" in /boot/boot.b. During the installation of LILO a "map-file" is created (ususllay /boot/map), where LILO finds the necessary pointers (sector-adresses) to the operating systems (Linux-Kernel etc.) that should be started.

(The following is taken from section 5.2.1 of the original LILO User's Guide by LILO-author Werner Almesberger)

When LILO loads itself, it displays the word

LILO
Each letter is printed before or after performing some specific action. If LILO fails at some point, the letters printed so far can be used to identify the problem.

The most frequent causes for a geometry mismatch are not physical defects or invalid partition tables but errors during the installation of LILO. Often these are caused by ignoring the 1024 cylinder boundary (1024_Zylinder.html).

Solution :

In most cases the solution is to follow the procedure given below :

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Keywords: BOOT, BOOT-PROBLEMS, LILO

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Categories: LILO

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