What is with the 99's??

I have completed a hd install of Knoppix KDE 3.1 (so I thought) but on rebooting my machine I am confronted with L 99 99 99 99 99 ... and so on for about a third of the screen right after it has mentioned "Veryifying DMI Pool Data".

I havn't seen this before and I'm wondering 1. Why is it there, and 2. How do I rectify the situation.

Thanks heaps.

Perhaps you have killed LILO?
Try reinstalling it.

Sorry, I don't know what 'Lilo' is... I just ran knx-hdinstall followed the prompts and went from there...

Did it ever work, or has this started after it having work previously?

Worked previously on CDrom only. This happened straight after rebooting my computer from the hd install.

Are you dual booting w/ wimpdoze or do you only have Knoppix installed? If you just have Knoppix then.....

Boot the Knoppix cd.
Open a terminal and do this:

sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
chroot /mnt/hda1
/sbin/lilo -v

If you're dual booting w/ windows then you may need to edit /etc/lilo.conf

If it fails to work or errors post your /etc/lilo.conf file please.

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chroot /mnt/hda1

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I got an error

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Cannot change root directory to mnt/hda1: Operation not permitted

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I am assuming I havn't got "Administrators Access" but I have no idea how to get it considering I never entered a password into Linux anywhere! :?

Please advise.

Anytime you get a permission error you can retry with 'sudo' so..

sudo chroot /mnt/hda1

Well, I searched on this site and found how to make a root password to gain the full access. I then proceeded to do the following commands

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sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
chroot /mnt/hda1
/sbin/lilo -v

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I received this error on the /sbin/lilo

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Unrecognized token "! Please edit etc/lilo.conf before running lilo !" At or above line 20 in file 'etc/lilo.conf'

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Here is everything from line 1 to 20 inclusive. I'm not too sure how to edit this file because I have no orientation to where anything is with this whole ramdisk this, cdrom that, mount the other... but here goes:

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# /etc/lilo.conf - See: `lilo(8)' and `lilo.conf(5)',
# --------------- `install-mbr(8)', `/usr/share/doc/lilo/',
# and `/usr/share/doc/mbr/'.

# Remove this line when you are done configuring. -KK
"! Please edit /etc/lilo.conf before running lilo!"

# +---------------------------------------------------------------+
# | !! Reminder !! |
# | |
# | Don't forget to run `lilo' after you make changes to this |
# | conffile, `/boot/bootmess.txt', or install a new kernel. The |
# | computer will most likely fail to boot if a kernel-image |
# | post-install script or you don't remember to run `lilo'. |
# | |
# +---------------------------------------------------------------+

# Support LBA for large hard disks.
#
lba32

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Thanks in advance. I am weary of my unexperience and have come close to exploding at this a few times now. Your help is much appreciated.

Ps> It was a bugger of a thing getting this stupid text on a disk! apparently I needed to CTRL+Z the program 'less' for it to update the terminal window with the text I wanted... Go on, have a laugh at my expense... My shout.

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Unrecognized token "! Please edit etc/lilo.conf before running lilo !" At or above line 20 in file 'etc/lilo.conf'

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# Remove this line when you are done configuring. -KK
"! Please edit /etc/lilo.conf before running lilo!"

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There is no comment ( # ) in front of the line starting with "!Please.
Just edit the file and remove the entire line or put the comment ( # ) there save the file and then run lilo again with the chroot command. eg. from the cd boot.

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sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
sudo gvim /mnt/hda1/etc/lilo.conf

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Then you would sudo chroot /mnt/hda1 /sbin/lilo -v
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