Installed mandrake 9.0, now I'm greeted with "99 99 99 99"... please help!

Installed mandrake 9.0, now I'm greeted with "99 99 99 99"... please help!

Post by Michae » Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:20:37



Hi - I just installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my computer. XP Pro was already
installed on the computer, and I made 20GB of free space at the beginning
of the RAID array and installed mandrake there. Now, when I turn on my
computer, I am greeted with a screen that just has the "99 " repeated over
and over (ie "99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99"). It doesn't respond to anything,
except for the three finger salute (ctrl alt del), which causes it to
restart. Does anyone know what is wrong? Thanks so much for your help!
 
 
 

Installed mandrake 9.0, now I'm greeted with "99 99 99 99"... please help!

Post by Tige » Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:29:52



> Hi - I just installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my computer. XP Pro was already
> installed on the computer, and I made 20GB of free space at the beginning
> of the RAID array and installed mandrake there. Now, when I turn on my
> computer, I am greeted with a screen that just has the "99 " repeated over
> and over (ie "99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99"). It doesn't respond to anything,
> except for the three finger salute (ctrl alt del), which causes it to
> restart. Does anyone know what is wrong? Thanks so much for your help!

This may be of help:
http://linas.org/linux/raid.html

--
Tiger
*Registered Linux User #279548
Mandrake 9.0
Gnome 2.0/KDE 3.1

 
 
 

Installed mandrake 9.0, now I'm greeted with "99 99 99 99"... please help!

Post by Mike000 » Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:31:08


I got that once after a failed install.  My cdrom got stuck right at the end
of the install and I rebooted the machine and got all 9's too.  Perhaps you
can reformat the partition and reinstall it?  Make sure your CDs or CD-ROM
aren't bad.  For the record the CDROM I used was older than Jesus.

--
Mike

Block web ads
http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html

Quote:> Hi - I just installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my computer. XP Pro was
already
> installed on the computer, and I made 20GB of free space at the beginning
> of the RAID array and installed mandrake there. Now, when I turn on my
> computer, I am greeted with a screen that just has the "99 " repeated over
> and over (ie "99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99"). It doesn't respond to anything,
> except for the three finger salute (ctrl alt del), which causes it to
> restart. Does anyone know what is wrong? Thanks so much for your help!

 
 
 

Installed mandrake 9.0, now I'm greeted with "99 99 99 99"... please help!

Post by Tige » Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:32:52



> I got that once after a failed install.  My cdrom got stuck right at the end
> of the install and I rebooted the machine and got all 9's too.  Perhaps you
> can reformat the partition and reinstall it?  Make sure your CDs or CD-ROM
> aren't bad.  For the record the CDROM I used was older than Jesus.

Would that be the fabled "Mandrake Beta *(B.C.) version?"

--
Tiger
*Registered Linux User #279548
Mandrake 9.0
Gnome 2.0/KDE 3.1

 
 
 

Installed mandrake 9.0, now I'm greeted with "99 99 99 99"... please help!

Post by Pablo Pasqual » Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:43:13


it sound to me that your box have been r00ted. please reinstall your os
today.

pp


> Hi - I just installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my computer. XP Pro was already
> installed on the computer, and I made 20GB of free space at the beginning
> of the RAID array and installed mandrake there. Now, when I turn on my
> computer, I am greeted with a screen that just has the "99 " repeated over
> and over (ie "99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99"). It doesn't respond to anything,
> except for the three finger salute (ctrl alt del), which causes it to
> restart. Does anyone know what is wrong? Thanks so much for your help!

 
 
 

Installed mandrake 9.0, now I'm greeted with "99 99 99 99"... please help!

Post by Michae » Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:08:52




Quote:> Hi - I just installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my computer. XP Pro was
> already installed on the computer, and I made 20GB of free space at
> the beginning of the RAID array and installed mandrake there. Now,
> when I turn on my computer, I am greeted with a screen that just has
> the "99 " repeated over and over (ie "99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99"). It
> doesn't respond to anything, except for the three finger salute (ctrl
> alt del), which causes it to restart. Does anyone know what is wrong?
> Thanks so much for your help!

I forgot one thing, there was an error in front of the first 9, like this:
"L 99 99"... I'll try deleting all of the linux partitions and trying
again. Thanks for such quick responses!
 
 
 

Installed mandrake 9.0, now I'm greeted with "99 99 99 99"... please help!

Post by torste » Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:33:42


On Mon the 17 Feb 2003 at 03 hours EST

M wrote...


>> Hi - I just installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my computer. XP Pro was
>> already installed on the computer, and I made 20GB of free space at
>> the beginning of the RAID array and installed mandrake there. Now,
>> when I turn on my computer, I am greeted with a screen that just has
>> the "99 " repeated over and over (ie "99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99"). It
>> doesn't respond to anything, except for the three finger salute (ctrl
>> alt del), which causes it to restart. Does anyone know what is wrong?
>> Thanks so much for your help!

>I forgot one thing, there was an error in front of the first 9, like this:
>"L 99 99"... I'll try deleting all of the linux partitions and trying
>again. Thanks for such quick responses!

The L is from "LILO" which lilo prints at bootup.  The 99's indicate
an error loading.

You must boot with a floppy, mount root= the hard disk, and simply
rerun the command "lilo."  It may be possible you incorrectly setup
lilo during install.

Torsten

 
 
 

Installed mandrake 9.0, now I'm greeted with "99 99 99 99"... please help!

Post by Philippe Rousselo » Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:39:15



> Hi - I just installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my computer. XP Pro was already
> installed on the computer, and I made 20GB of free space at the beginning
> of the RAID array and installed mandrake there. Now, when I turn on my
> computer, I am greeted with a screen that just has the "99 " repeated over
> and over (ie "99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99"). It doesn't respond to anything,
> except for the three finger salute (ctrl alt del), which causes it to
> restart. Does anyone know what is wrong? Thanks so much for your help!

Hi,

using grub instead of lilo will make your life easier.

Also use 9.1 instead of 9.0

Cheers,

Philippe

 
 
 

Installed mandrake 9.0, now I'm greeted with "99 99 99 99"... please help!

Post by Ted Johansso » Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:29:06




>> Hi - I just installed Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my computer. XP Pro was
>> already installed on the computer, and I made 20GB of free space at
>> the beginning of the RAID array and installed mandrake there. Now,
>> when I turn on my computer, I am greeted with a screen that just has
>> the "99 " repeated over and over (ie "99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99"). It
>> doesn't respond to anything, except for the three finger salute (ctrl
>> alt del), which causes it to restart. Does anyone know what is wrong?
>> Thanks so much for your help!

> Hi,

> using grub instead of lilo will make your life easier.

> Also use 9.1 instead of 9.0

The "99 " is lilo's way of telling you that something is not OK and it
fails to boot, check lilo's documentation for a hint of what can be wrong.

Yes, grub is easier to deal with and does not need "installation" after
each minor change of its .conf-file.

Regards,   Ted

 
 
 

1. L 99 99 99 error while booting

Hi,

I have a problem with lilo. After updating to suse 8.1 (and obviously
updating lilo and the boot sector), i get an error message. It looks like
"L 99 99 99 99..." (some rows with "99") and occurs while booting. Does
anybody know how to solve my problem?

Thx in advance,
G.B.

2. kludgey improvement over ipcrm

3. Ftape 0.9.9d, Kernel 0.99.15, Modutils 0.99.15 Help.

4. LDAP client with nice GUI ?

5. : if setup 0.99.14 kernel, then 0.99.13 kernel boots?!

6. changing passwd from C

7. Solaris 7 version: 3/99 or 5/99

8. smbmount

9. Guikachu 0.99.0 "Image of Me": GNOME Resource editor for PalmOS projects

10. Slackware 96: "Welcome to Linux 0.99.15"!?!?

11. Mount Processes at 99% of "top"

12. Notebook goes "sleep" when starting 0.99.15

13. kerneld & 1.99.9 failure: "Cannot load libgdbm.so.2"