From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) Subject: Re: lilo problems Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 13:39:58 GMT
In article <JUH.92Sep5001557@lazy.qt.IPA.FhG.de> juh@qt.IPA.FhG.de (Juergen Henke) writes:
> I've tried to install lilo.4 on my home system (486/33/16/AHA1542B), but
> the only response i get is an 'L'.
This means, that LILO's boot sector has been loaded, but that it isn't
able to load the second stage loader. (It keeps on trying forever.)
I'd suspect a problem with the disk parameters. Please compare the output
of DPARAM.COM and the contents of /etc/lilo/disktab. There could also
problems with the partition offset (also in /etc/lilo/disktab), though
if only this is wrong, it should at least get to the "I" of "LILO" and
crash then.
For the curious: "LIL" means, that the second stage boot loader has been
successfully started and "LILO" indicates, that it has been able to read
the image descriptor sector and is now awaiting keyboard input.
- Werner
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