LILO problem

[christina]

Hello, I am a new user.
I have a problem with the boot process of lilo. On the computer screen are displayed only the first two letters of LILO and the process stops. How can i fix it? Many thanks

[iwanabeguru]

please post your lilo.conf

[christina]

please post your lilo.conf

how can i find it? i can not boot this computer at all.
should i try with a bootable dos diskette or not?

thank you

[Juan Pablo]

Try with a live cd, ubuntu or knoppix are good choices

[iwanabeguru]

boot with a live cd.
mount the root partition: if you installed the linux to the first partition on the first hard disk (primary master) its called hda1 , second partiton on the primary master disk is hda2 etc.
prim. master :hda
prim. slave: hdb
second. master hdc
second. slave hdd

for example :
the root partition is hda2 and have ext3 fs
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /mnt

after you mounted the root partition you find the lilo.conf in the /etc directory.

post the file here

[christina]

MY LILO.CONF IS AS FOLLOWS:
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# /etc/lilo.conf: Sample LILO boot loader configuration.

boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda2
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
prompt
#message=/boot/messg
lba32
default=win
#append="/dev/hda=ide-scsi,/dev/hdb=ide-scsi"

image=/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda2
label=linux
read-only

image=/vmlinuz.orig
root=/dev/hda2
label=failsafe
read-only

other=/dev/hda1
label=win


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MANY THANKS

[Juan Pablo]

Which version of Debian are you using?

[iwanabeguru]

hi

in this section you need define the initrd file if you using vmlinuz kernel img
image=/vmlinuz
initrd=/path to yuor initrd img
root=/dev/hda2
label=linux
read-only //change this line to read-write because its say the lilo mount the root filesystem read only.

save and run the command lilo

ps: i compiling my kernel into bzimg
and here is my lilo.conf may it help

boot=/dev/hda
delay=300
vga=1
menu-title=" Good work on Anubys! "
menu-scheme=Cb:Rb:Yb:Wb
default="Debian/Sarge"
prompt
timeout=300

#Debian , 2.6.16.14
image=/boot/linux-2.6.16.14-wicr
root=/dev/hda2
label=Debian/Sarge
read-write

#Debian , kernel 2.6.1x.y
image=/boot/linux-2.6.16.14-wicr
root=/dev/hda2
label=TEST
read-write

#Debian
#image=/vmlinuz
#initrd=/initrd.img
#root=/dev/hda2
#label="Debian-Original"
#read-write

#Windows XP
other=/dev/hda1
label="Windows_XP"
table=/dev/hda

[christina]

debian version is 2.2.19 (testing/unstable)
initrd directory is empty

thanks

[iwanabeguru]

"debian version is 2.2.19" are you sure?
let us know your distro codename (sarge,etch ,sid)