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by **Martin Olive** » Thu, 23 Apr 1998 04:00:00

I may have damaged and Master Boot Record of my drive,
which seems to be causing LILO not to work anymore.
I get the "L 80 80 80 80 ..." error message when I try
to use LILO to boot my system.

I booted-up from a floppy and then I tried to uninstall
LILO using "lilo -u", but got an error message saying
that the "Time stamp in boot sector of /dev/hda differs
from date of /boot/boot.0300. Try using -U option if
you know what you are doing". Of course, since I do NOT
know what I'm doing, I DID try the -U option.

NOTE: At the time I did not have a Win95 boot-up floppy,
so I couldn't boot up in Win95 to then run fdisk /mbr to
restore the old MBR.

One detail I noticed is that when I boot up Linux from a
floppy doing:

boot: mount root=/dev/hdb1 ro

I do get ALL filesystems mounted. but I noticed that hdb
and hdc have a cache of 128k, while hda as a cache of 0k
(yes, zero), according to the on-screen messages on boot-up.

Any clues on what's going on?

Martin Olivera

by **John Smit** » Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:00:00

Get a DOS boot disk with fdisk.com on it. Boot off the DOS boot disk and
run fdisk ./mbr. This will repair your MBR. You will then have to boot
Linux with a Linux boot disk and rerun lilo to reinstall it. By the way I
recommend against installing lilo on the MBR for specifically this reason.
Install it on the boot partition. This way nest time something gets screwed
up then all you would need to do is rerun the fdisk /mbr command and it
would repair the problem.

>I may have damaged and Master Boot Record of my drive,
>which seems to be causing LILO not to work anymore.
>I get the "L 80 80 80 80 ..." error message when I try
>to use LILO to boot my system.

>I booted-up from a floppy and then I tried to uninstall
>LILO using "lilo -u", but got an error message saying
>that the "Time stamp in boot sector of /dev/hda differs
>from date of /boot/boot.0300. Try using -U option if
>you know what you are doing". Of course, since I do NOT
>know what I'm doing, I DID try the -U option.

>NOTE: At the time I did not have a Win95 boot-up floppy,
>so I couldn't boot up in Win95 to then run fdisk /mbr to
>restore the old MBR.

>One detail I noticed is that when I boot up Linux from a
>floppy doing:

>boot: mount root=/dev/hdb1 ro

>I do get ALL filesystems mounted. but I noticed that hdb
>and hdc have a cache of 128k, while hda as a cache of 0k
>(yes, zero), according to the on-screen messages on boot-up.

>Any clues on what's going on?

>Martin Olivera

by **Roy Stogn** » Sat, 25 Apr 1998 04:00:00

>By the way I recommend against installing lilo on the MBR for
>specifically this reason. Install it on the boot partition. This
>way nest time something gets screwed up then all you would need to do
>is rerun the fdisk /mbr command and it would repair the problem.

Huh? This doesn't make any sense. Either the Linux partition is the
default booted, in which case "fdisk /mbr" will continue to point to a
broken LILO install, or the Linux partition isn't the default booted,
in which case you can't get into Linux with this setup whether LILO is
working right or not.
---
Roy Stogner

by **Gennady M. Karp** » Sat, 25 Apr 1998 04:00:00

>Get a DOS boot disk with fdisk.com on it. Boot off the DOS boot disk and

>>I may have damaged and Master Boot Record of my drive,
>>which seems to be causing LILO not to work anymore.
>>I get the "L 80 80 80 80 ..." error message when I try
>>to use LILO to boot my system.

I also have had this problem. Try lilo -l or add "linear"
option in lilo.conf.
Gennady Karpov

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