Sounds like a Lilo problem. They happen to me all of the time. Did you make a boot floppy? If not you can make one from the dos utils on the Knoppix CD. Once you get into your HD install then type lilo to reinstall the boot loder.
I have a 120GB IBM HDD, I installed windows xp (read crappy) on a 40GB partition (primary, bootable) created another 40GB (logical patition) and installed knoppix. Everything went great! or so I thought! When I rebooted the macine all I got on the screen was 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 111111111
11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111
111111111111111
then it just hangs there!
FUBAR!
Can anyone help??
Sounds like a Lilo problem. They happen to me all of the time. Did you make a boot floppy? If not you can make one from the dos utils on the Knoppix CD. Once you get into your HD install then type lilo to reinstall the boot loder.
MattT is right on - it looks like a bootloader problem. Hopefully you did make the boot floppy. Boot with it- become root and do a
/sbin/lilo
Then if it installs correctly you'll be able to boot from the LILO menu next time. If it doesn't install correctly it will give you an error. Post the error if you need an assist.
WELL I DID NOT! I used the windozzzz XP disk to reset my MBR, then I reinstalled my HDD partition again with knopix, peace-a-cake, but again, after the install was complete I checked my lilo config, everything was ok, I ran lilo just to make sure, same problem, I tried a debain woody install disk, same problems agian. I will try with grub reply to this mailing list. So far my experience with lilo..... IT SUCKS!
Hey, where's the fire?
Making no bootfloppy is kinda like "your fault", but...
...I didn't make on either, and...
...When you have just installed Knoppix there is no real danger in not being able to boot into it. You can always reinstall, or do what you did, boot the Windows boot disk and "fdisk /mbr".
The hdinstaller *should* indeed give you the choice between LILO and Grub. It would be even better if the choise was more or less automated, if either one will not work on your particular config. There should have been documentation on adding Linux to the XP boot menu, etc. But...
...You didn't pay a cent for it. (well...)
So if you would want it added, you can hire Klaus Knopper. Or hope he (or someone who helps him) adds it all by himself
Trying to be friendly would shurely help.
You should always make a boot floppy no matter what the OS.Originally Posted by manjo
Did you choose 'yes' when it asked to install LILO to the MBR?I used the windozzzz XP disk to reset my MBR, then I reinstalled my HDD partition again with knopix, peace-a-cake,
In lilo.conf it will tell you if you installed LILO to your /root directory or the MBR. MBR is of course hda1. Your /root directory is the same one you installed Knoppix to.but again, after the install was complete I checked my lilo config, everything was ok,
What was the output when you ran /sbin/lilo?I ran lilo just to make sure, same problem,
Since LILO is the most commonly used boot loader for Linux I would venture to guess that it was user error. LILO works flawlessly for me. If you're still interested in using LILO post your lilo.conf and some hard drive partition details and we'll see if we can get it fixed up for you.I tried a debain woody install disk, same problems agian. I will try with grub reply to this mailing list. So far my experience with lilo..... IT SUCKS!
I screwed up and installed lilo in root instead of hda1, so needless to say, all i got at reboot was 99 99 99 99 99 99 to infinity. Luckily, just as a precaution, i did creat a boot disk. So when installing to hdd, be cafeful when it comes to lilo install, and be sure to point it to hda1 instead of root. After i booted with floppy, i redid the lilo making sure it went to hda1, and it works great.
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