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  • From: elmarsa dice <elmarsadice AT yahoo.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Harddrive will not boot
  • Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:09:21 -0700 (PDT)

Steven,
Thanks for the reply, see below:

--- 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> elmarsa dice wrote:
> >
> > I have installed BL3 from the 2 floppies and am
> > able to start up again with fd 1 and the hd
> > root=/dev/hda1 command.
>
> OK so far so good.
>
> > I did the lilo drill and tried to reboot from the
> hda1
> > partition.
>
> Did you get any error messages when you did "lilo
> -v"?

No, the only message was that it would be in effect on
the next reboot.

> > The problem is that all I see is a display of
> obviously
> > encoded symbols on the screen and then the cursor
> freezes.
>
> I suggest you edit /etc/lilo.conf and remove the #
> in front
> of the boot=/dev/hda line. Then run "lilo -v"
> again. That
> will put lilo in the MBR and it should boot.

Did that to get it to boot from the harddrive. Also
did a man lilo and set up the lilo.conf file as
prescribed. Also did a dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda
bs=446 count=1 on both hda1 and hda and re lilo'ed but
got the same results i.e. unreadable symbols and
frozen screen. I did a vi of zimage and its encoded
but at the end there was some error comments. Don't
know if that means anything. I think maybe the zimage
file is corrupted or didn't get unzipped, although
somewhere I read that the image file needs to be
zipped on boot. Well that's what I've done with this
and am stumped. Any further thoughts are appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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elmarsa

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