[Gllug] Re: LILO boot problem

[rdrinkwater]

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First, thanks Alex.

home at alexhudson.com wrote:> 

> 
> If by init you mean you ran 'init 0', that's not necessarily a normal
> closedown :)

Agreed, but normal to us for what we were doing.  Incidentally, how else 
would you close down?

> LI means second stage boot loader failure. Could be a number of things. When
> you re-lilo'd, did you install to the MBR or the start of the partition? If
> it did work at one stage, reinstalling lilo should be possible. It should be
> /dev/rd/c0d0 (I would imagine), rather than anything else. If this is the
> first time you've tried to install lilo, it might be that the lilo.conf
> isn't correct for whatever reason.

The one thing we didn't try was c0d0!!  We have now done so and all is 
ok.
> 
> Or, you could bite the bullet and bang grub on there.

Never having used grub what are the pros and cons and why "bite the 
bullet", after all "if you know a better fox-hole etc..."

Having sorted out the boot problem we now have the following message 
repeatedly appearing (before this saga started we had a working networked 
box!!!).

eth0: timeout waiting for TxRDC
Hw. address read/write mismap 1
Hw. address read/write mismap 3

We have changed the NIC and MB just in case, but to no avail and have 
now re-installed Mandrake - still the same.  All pointers gratefully 
received.

Roy Drinkwater


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