Weird errors

**rub3x** · 07-25-2005

Ok I formatted freshly and installed new kernel. Everything went smooth, booted to gnome installed apache php ssh ftp gaim, etc. Decided to reboot for the hell of it, and now it wont start back up without the rescue disk.. It doesnt even make it to lilo, it says something like
Boot from cd:
Boot from cd:
9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a
9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a 9a

Then just freezes. There is no floppy cd's in the tray. When i set BIOS to boot straight from hdd and not cd first it does the same thing but doesnt say Boot from cd. When I put rescue floppy in it works fine. (I reset BIOS to make sure it wasnt that) Any ideas?

**loft306** · 07-25-2005

he stated he tried '/sbin/lilo' already on IRC
paste the output of

Code:

fdisk -l

and the contents of your lilo.conf

and it is making it to lilo just not to the lilo screen this a lilo error

check this link http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-41149.html

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;

**rub3x** · 07-25-2005

Ok i ran lilo -M /dev/hda from that link. Now the error is:
Boot from cd.
Boot from cd.
No boot signature in partition
Insert boot disk and press any keyt to continue.

# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/hda5
message = /boot/boot_message.txt
prompt
timeout = 1200
# Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:
change-rules
reset
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
vga = 773
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
# End LILO global section

# Windows bootable partition config begins
#other = /dev/hda1
#label = Windows
#table = /dev/hda
# Windows bootable partition config ends

# Linux-2.6.12.3 kernel begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda5
label = Linux-2.6.12.3
read-only
# Linux-2.6.12.3 kernel ends

# Linux-2.4.29 kernel begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz-old
root = /dev/hda5
label = Linux-2.4.29
read-only
# Linux-2.4.29 kernel ends

Disk /dev/hda: 154.2 GB, 154211274752 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 18748 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 9348 75087778+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 9349 18709 75192232+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 * 18710 18748 313267+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 9349 18466 73240303+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 18467 18709 1951866 82 Linux swap

**loft306** · 07-25-2005

paste the outrput of

Code:

cat /etc/fstab

also in the lilo.conf the

Code:

boot = /dev/hda5

should be

Code:

boot = /dev/hda

^^^^^ that is probably why it says "no boot signature in partition"
also above do you have a seperate /boot partition as 'dev/hda3' or is the realy the root part?

**rub3x** · 07-25-2005

rub3x@Force:~$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
rub3x@Force:~$

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