[SWLUG] L 99 after install on 160GB HD

[Tim Shapcott]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Davage, Marcus wrote:

> When I rebooted, lilo failed with L 99 99 99... I couldn't get into Linux.
> Rebooted with a floppy into DOS - fdisk /mbr.
> Reinstalled Linux, only this time with the mkbootdisk option, but the
> mkbootdisk failed for no specific reason, even though the rest of the
> installation worked. Rebooted. L 99 99 99...
> Reinstalled Linux only THIS time specifying /boot as /dev/hda6 (Linux /) not
> /dev/hda (HD primary partition). Rebooted. Still L 99 99 99...
> I am completely baffled.

Try downloading this boot disk: http://www.toms.net/rb/

Boot into it, and then:

[root at localhost #] mount /dev/hda6 /mnt
[root at localhost #] chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo -M
[root at localhost #] chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo

This worked for me.

Tim