RE: Corrupted lilo boot program

["Chiu, PCM (Peter) " <P C M Chiu rl ac uk>]

Hi Patty,

The corruption didn't come as a result of an installation.  
The /boot partition is only 54MB large.  

To our amazement, when the system was rebooted, the user 
mistyped "lilo" in response to the lilo prompt, as opposed 
to "linux" or simply hit the RETURN key.

The system could not locate this "lilo" kernel and somehow
corrupted its LILO master boot record!  Maybe someone is
brave enough to try this to see if it is reproducible.

Regards,
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Patty OReilly [mailto:oreilly qualcomm com]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 5:42 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Cc: Peter Chiu (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Corrupted lilo boot program


You must have installed lilo on a disk beyond the 1024 cylinder boundary.
I thought RedHat 7.1 used the new lilo which doesn't have this problem...

--patyt


On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Chiu, PCM (Peter)  wrote:

> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 16:57:53 +0100
> From: "Chiu, PCM (Peter) " <P C M Chiu rl ac uk>
> Reply-To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Cc: "Peter Chiu (E-mail)" <P Chiu rl ac uk>
> Subject: Corrupted lilo boot program
> 
> It appears that we have corrupted our LILO boot program.
> When the system reboots, it gets stuck after displaying
> half of the LILO prompt, ie literally displaying "LI".
> 
> The RH 7.1 system can be restarted using a recovery floppy.
> >From that, I can also see /etc/lilo.conf and check all the
> kernel boot files listed in that configuration file.
> 
> I have tried a few methods in the hope of correcting
> the master book record, but without much luck.
> 
> I have tried 
> a. using the command lilo -v,
> b. linuxconf to specify the boot device being /dev/sda1 where /boot is,
> and also /dev/sda,
> c. lisa - but this fails as there is no configuration file lisarc.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light how to rectify this?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Peter Chiu
> Tel:  +44-(0)1235-446699
> Fax: +44-(0)1235-445848
> Email: P Chiu rl ac uk
> 
> 
> 
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