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Old September 10th, 2002, 05:44 PM
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LILO Error Code - L?L?
So, what the heck is error code L?L? anyway? The closest thing I can find is LIL? which means:
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The second stage boot loader has been loaded at an incorrect address. This is typically caused by a subtle geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer.

I can't find anything about error L?L?, so what is it?

Any help in resolving this error would be much appreciated.
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Hopefully you have a boot disk handy, because you're going to have to boot from it and play with the configuration of /etc/lilo.conf.

I can't give you a whole lot of help, because the configuration is VERY system dependent.

Remember to run "/sbin/lilo" after you tweak lilo.conf to write the changes to your boot sector. . .

What did you do that could've messed up lilo? Kernel upgrade? Fix your boot sector with a windows virus program (if you dual-boot)?
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Old September 11th, 2002, 09:21 PM
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oops, sorry... should have been specific. I have my lilo.conf set up with 2 linux kernels and a dos partition on a different disk. The linux kernels launch ok, but when I try to launch dos I get L?L? and it locks.

My dos partition should, in theory, be on hdb1 which is where I have lilo.conf pointed. I ran /sbin/lilo each time I made a conf change, so that's not it.
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Well, here's my working lilo.conf, don't know if the "other" section will be much help. . .

Please post your lilo.conf, and the output of df, maybe we can suss something out.

Code:
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3
        label=linux
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/hda6

other=/dev/hda1
        optional
        label=DOS
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Code:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=2.4.16-xx

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
         label=2.2.16-22
         read-only
         root=/dev/hda1

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18
         label=2.4.18-xx
         read-only
         root=/dev/hda1

other=/dev/hdb1
         label=dos


I'm curious about the linear setting. I'm going to change it to lba32 and see if that helps.

Nope... wait.. I'm thinking maybe hdb1 isn't getting mounted.. I just noticed I have no /mnt/dos even though it's in fstab.. wonder where it went...
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Well, one thing off the bat is that your "default" doesn't match any valid labels in your entries.
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default=2.4.16-xx
. . .
label=2.2.16-22
. . .
label=2.4.18-xx


I guess it's possible it's getting screwed up from this, but I doubt it.

Chances are your drive uses lba32 addressing, that may very well fix it. Let us know!
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Whoops.. typo (default matches the 2.4.18-xx entry in the real file).

lba32 didn't work. I noticed that my /mnt/dos directory was gone so I put it back. Now I don't get L?L? when I try to launch dos, I just get nothing...

[edit]
Whoops, forgot to run /sbin/lilo...
[/edit]

No, still no good....
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OK, I knew this was bad news from the start but I did it anyway:

I changed boot= to boot=/dev/hdb which, of course, fragged my Windows disk's boot sector. This caused 3 separate mount problems under Linux and of course did not solve the problem, so, I stuck in my windows boot disk and "sys"ed the drive back to "life" as it were. However, I am now stuck with this problem. LILO has taken over the MBR on the other disk, so unless I can figure out why I get L? when I try to boot Windows, I'll never get back into it.

Perhaps, part of my problem was that my /mnt/dos directory was gone? I put it back so now fstab's entry is valid and the FAT mount succeeds when I boot up, but I can't boot to it with LILO.... ugh... windows is giving me headaches even when I'm NOT using it.... Now I'm going to have to go fdsk /mbr my other disk. Has anyone done this before? I don't trust fdsk in the least....

[speculation]
It would seem to me that if I say "linear" mode in lilo.conf for a 40GB disk... that doesn't make geometric sense. It would almost HAVE to be lba32.... yet, that fails as well...
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Just idle speculation, but in Hero's lilo.conf there was the line "optional" for the dos entry, and not in Ctb's.... I seem to remember having that line when I used to dual boot, so maybe that's something? (it probably does nothing now I saw it lol )
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Well, here's the thing I think I need to sort out first... if I have two drives, where does LILO/Linux get it's assignments from, BIOS? That is, say I set up my BIOS to try booting from Disk 2 first, which is the disk that contains Linux. Now, does that BIOS setup make my Linux disk hda1 and my Windoze disk hdb1? If that's the case then if I install LILO over the MBR on the first disk and change BIOS to boot from disk 1 first, doesn't Windoze then become hda1 and Linux hdb1? If that's the case, how the heck would I set my lilo.conf file up for that...? googling as I speak.
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I believe it works like this-

Whatever drive that's set as the master is /dev/hda, the slave is /dev/hdb. Lilo is usually installed on MBR of /dev/hda, and you can then boot from whatever partition you wish.
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