What is with the 99's??

[thegroover]

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.

[Tortoise]

Perhaps you have killed LILO?
Try reinstalling it.

[thegroover]

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

[Tortoise]

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

[thegroover]

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

[rickenbacherus]

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.

[thegroover]

chroot /mnt/hda1

I got an error

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

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.

[rickenbacherus]

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

sudo chroot /mnt/hda1

[thegroover]

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

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

I received this error on the /sbin/lilo

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

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:

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

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.

[Stephen]

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

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

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.

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

[edit]

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