Re: Blown BIOS, no boot

[David Talkington <dtalk prairienet org>]

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John P Verel wrote:

>Did you get an error code along side the "L"?  Werner Almesberger's LILO
>"User's guide", sections 5.2.1 and 5.2.2, page 44, documents these codes
>to tell you what's going on.  If you can't get to this document, post
>the code and I'll get the info to you. (There's 16 different
>possibilities).

Or just use loadlin.  LILO's a PIA on old machines like that.  Easily
confused about geometry with old BIOS's.  It's not worth the hassle of
a reinstall, which may not fix the problem anyway. Booting from a
floppy is easy.

- -d


>> I' trying to reurrect an old 486 for use as a router. It became
>> apparent that the battery, a Dallas Realtime clock, had seen better
>> days, so I replaced it. Apparently that was a mistake. Lilo only gets
>> to "L", and the system won't boot from the recently made boot floppy.
>> Both the hd's auto-detect fine. I can boot it into rescue mode. I did
>> that, then did:
>> 
>>     # chroot /mnt/sysimage # /sbin/lilo
>> 
>> Which acted normally, but didn't fix it.
>> 
>> Is there any hope for it short of a complete reinstall? 
>
>

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