Lilo error, L 99

**Scourge** · 04-25-2005

I installed Slackware 10.1 on my Maxtor 40gb harddrive, and when I boot, lilo just gives me L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 (many 99:s)

Searched google and everything but didn't get it fixed..

Help me I'm lost / thrustrated (dunno did I write it correctly, English isn't my mother tonque)

**retired1af** · 04-25-2005

Post the output of fdisk -l and the contents of your lilo.conf file.

**Scourge** · 04-25-2005

Originally Posted by retired1af

Post the output of fdisk -l and the contents of your lilo.conf file.

hdd1

/dev/hdd1 /
/dev/hdd2 home
/dev/hdd3 swap

lilo.conf relevant parts:

#append hdX=ide-scsi
timeout 1
prompt
boot = /dev/hdd1

standard row / col

jadajadajada

label = Linux
root = /dev/hdd1
image = /boot/vmlinuz

-- simple lilo configuration, could do it myself but it was more stable to use that and mobify it myself afterwards

**budman7** · 04-25-2005

According to this site, installing Lilo to the MBR will solve this.
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/LILO_Error_Codes
I looked for more documentation, but couldn't find any.

Hope this helps.

P.S doeas anybody happen to know where the Lilo documentation is.
I have read it is very good, but i couldn't find it.

**puntmuts** · 04-25-2005

http://tldp.org is always a good place to start looking for docs.
In this case http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...ngle/LILO.html
might help. Also man lilo and man lilo.conf could be usefull.

**retired1af** · 04-25-2005

Originally Posted by Scourge

-- simple lilo configuration, could do it myself but it was more stable to use that and mobify it myself afterwards

Without the actual contents of lilo.conf AND the actual output of fdisk -l there's not much we can do for you. Need the entire output of each please.

**budman7** · 04-25-2005

Originally Posted by puntmuts

http://tldp.org is always a good place to start looking for docs.
In this case http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...ngle/LILO.html
might help. Also man lilo and man lilo.conf could be usefull.

I actually saw that page when I was searching and didn't realize that was it

I didn't see any error codes on that page, I figured the Lilo doc page would have error codes.

**puntmuts** · 04-25-2005

man lilo has a partial list of errors and their meaning. Since that page is unavailable when people getting this error here they come:

Code:

When the first
       stage loader gets control, it types the letter "L"; when it is ready to transfer control to the second  stage  loader
       it  types the letter "I".  If any error occurs, like a disk read error, it will put out a hexadecimil error code, and
       then it will re-try the operation.  All hex error codes are BIOS return values, except for the lilo-generated 40,  99
       and 9A.  A partial list of error codes follows&#58;

              00  no error
              01  invalid disk command
              02  address mark not found
              03  disk write-protected
              04  sector not found
              06  floppy disk removed
              08  DMA overrun
              0A  bad sector flag
              0B  bad track flag
              20  controller failure
              40  seek failure &#40;BIOS&#41;
              40  cylinder>1023 &#40;LILO&#41;
              99  invalid second stage index sector &#40;LILO&#41;
              9A  no second stage loader signature &#40;LILO&#41;

TS: try to change your boot= option in your lilo.conf. If you want to boot from your /dev/hdd then remove the 1 in your line and rerun lilo.

**Zardokk** · 04-26-2005

When I installed Mandrake recently, I had the same error. I went searching through Google and eventually realized that the 99 99 99 error means something is corrupted. What I did was reinstall Mandrake with LILO and all and it started working again. I don't know why this happens, but reinstalling worked for me.

**Scourge** · 04-26-2005

Originally Posted by Zardokk

When I installed Mandrake recently, I had the same error. I went searching through Google and eventually realized that the 99 99 99 error means something is corrupted. What I did was reinstall Mandrake with LILO and all and it started working again. I don't know why this happens, but reinstalling worked for me.

Re-installed.
Didn't work.

That's why I asked help.

--
Retided1af

If you really really want to know what there says...
I will have to _write it down by hand.

I checked fdisk and so ong, I'm not first timer with linux.

I just run out of ideas.

Besides, I gave you information what should be enough to solve the problem.

There is another HD on my computer but it's irrelevant, lilo.conf is really really simple.
That's why I wroted those lines what really matters.
(Everything yelse is commented [ # ] )

Though, my other hd is hda, and lilo is littlebit cranky about it..

AND I noticed that my Slackware cd2 is broken / something.
It's the slackware rescuedisk, when I try to boot from it cames the same error.

Maybe I should try Grub?

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