September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
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LILO Boot Errors
As LILO loads itself, it displays the letters of the word LILO, one at a time as it proceeds. Once LILO is correctly loaded, you’ll see the full word printed on the screen. If nothing prints, then LILO has not been loaded at all; most likely LILO isn’t installed or it is installed, but on a partition that is not active. If LILO started loading, but there was a problem, you can see how far it got by how many letters printed:
- L
The first stage boot loader is loaded and running, but it can’t load the second stage. There should be an error code indicating the type of problem; usually the problem is a media failure or bad disk parameters. See the LILO User’s Guide for the meaning of the error codes.
- LI
The first stage boot loader loaded the second stage but was not able to run it. The problem is most likely bad disk parameters or the file /boot/boot.b (the boot sector) was moved but the lilo command wasn’t run.
- LIL
The second stage boot loader was run, but it couldn’t load the descriptor table from the map file. This is usually caused by a media failure or bad disk parameters.
- LIL?
The second stage boot loader was loaded at an incorrect address, probably because of bad disk parameters or by moving /boot/boot.b without running lilo.
- LIL-
The descriptor table is corrupt. The problem is probably bad disk parameters or moving /boot/map without running lilo.
- LILO
LILO was successfully loaded.
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