Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 1997 11:18:06 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Darin Johnson <> | | Subject | LILO |
| |
> From: James Pharaoh <james@pharaoh0.demon.co.uk>
> When I try and install LILO running a recent kernel (currently 2.0.31-pre6) > it completes the installation, but when I try and boot it only gets as far > as "LI"...
From the LILO docs: LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer.
You don't have a kernel problem, as you haven't gotten far enough to even start loading the kernel (you'd have to have it say all of 'LILO' first).
Lilo depends upon files being at the same place they were when it was configured. It saves the absolute sectors of certain files, rather than decipher a filesystem. That is why you must re-run lilo everytime you build a new kernel, since it may be in a new place. This also applies if you move any of the map, boot.b, etc files.
I'd suggest running lilo again, and have it rebuild its map files and stuff.
|  |