Koozali.org: home of the SME Server

Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Beast on April 02, 2004, 12:59:32 PM

Title: LILO only shows LI at boot
Post by: Beast on April 02, 2004, 12:59:32 PM

Hi All

Have been messing around with Norton Ghost 2003 and other things, the result is that when booting SME 6.01 it stops with only LI shown on screen. I can boot it from a floppy with no problems, but for some reasons I am unable to get it to boot directly from the SCSI harddisk (software RAID)?

I have tried to run LILO and FSCK at the command prompt with no change in behavior.

When I look in the first sectors of /dev/md0 it looks as if it is a Microsoft Windows NT disk??????

Shall I update the MBR and how - or is there another way? Maybee just a basic update from the CD.

Have also looked into lilo.conf but it looks OK.

In hope for a solution
Beast

Title: LILO only shows LI at boot
Post by: RavenIV on April 03, 2004, 02:28:02 AM

have a look at this link:
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~mibe/linux/lilo/user/d4hnode77.html

Title: Not even a new installation help
Post by: Beast on April 03, 2004, 12:05:59 PM

Hi

This is very strange........

Had a look at your very helpful url and tried different things, like installing a new map etc.
With no luck.

Then I tried to perform an upgrade with no luck

Then tried a new installation (format file systems etc) with no luck

Still same problem, but it has been working for 2 month before this so I know it has to work !!!!

Now I will try to erase the harddisk manually and then do a new install again.............

Title: Success
Post by: Anonymous on April 03, 2004, 01:05:16 PM

It worked to delete the harddisk manually !!!!!

NB: With MS fdisk

Title: LILO only shows LI at boot
Post by: Hermansen on April 09, 2004, 04:45:15 AM

I had the exact same problem after restoring an image with Acronis Trueimage.

I did an Fdisk, and made the first partition ACTIVE.

That solved it.

Title: LILO only shows LI at boot
Post by: raem on August 18, 2004, 10:56:04 AM

This HOWTO may answer the original posters problem

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/rmitchell/smeserver/howto/Cloning%20drive%20with%20Ghost%20lilo.conf%20fix%20HOWTO%20for%20sme%20server.htm

Title: LILO only shows LI at boot
Post by: dasx45 on August 18, 2004, 12:19:31 PM

If you originally used MS fdisk to partition try c:\fdisk /mbr

Then boot from your floppy to start repairing LILO