LI problem with LILO

[mcvdmvs]

Hi, i set up a webserver but after using netconf, yeah i know it is bad, LILO wont go, it just stop with LI.
Im using RH 6.2 with 2.2.19.6-2.7 kernel.
Anyone who can help?

mcvdmvs
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[x3ja]

Check out

http://www.linux-sna.org/events/papers/Israel-2000/drivers/lilo startup messages.html

Quote:

LILO startup message:
LI, The first step of the loader has been able to load the second step, whose processing then failed. This can be caused by an incorrect geometry or by repositioning the file boot.b without reinstalling the loader.

Which, I think means that you need to rerun "lilo" as root, but that's a guess

May not be the best site, but just try

http://www.google.com/linux

and search for "LILO error messages" or something like that.

Alex

 

[ifincham]

Hi,
this error message ('LI') means as follows :

LI
The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer.

You must have somehow got the binary lilo out of sync with the actual /boot layout - whenever any changes are made to /etc/lilo.conf, or any of the files referred to therein, you <MUST> re-run lilo to update the binary boot image.

To recover you will need to boot from floppy or from CD and to re-run lilo - i.e. as root '/sbin/lilo -v' . If you don't have another boot disk that exactly matches your current config then boot to maintenance mode 'boot: linux single' and mount you filesystem(s) by hand to do the repair.

Rgds

 

[mcvdmvs]

If i boot from cd, i have a choice linux rescue, this puts me in bash. I guess this is single user, but now theres no way that i can run lilo. Lilo is on my sda7 device and it is not mounted, however i tried to mount it, bu lilo is reporting error messages, cause its searcing in /etc while the lilo.conf is mounted on /sda7/etc.
How can i mount it so i have my whole sda7 direct under root? mcvdmvs
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[ifincham]

Hi,

Just do :

mount /dev/sda7 -t ext2 -o rw,remount / (if already mounted)
or

mount /dev/sda7 -t ext2 -o rw / (if not mounted)

Rgds