Re: LILO fatal error when writing MBR

Roby <roby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I added "geometric" to global section of lilo.conf, also
un-remarked the three rules lines for ntfs. So now we get:

LILO version 22.5.9, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 John Coffman
Released 08-Apr-2004 and compiled at 00:18:50 on May 21 2004.

Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80
fn 08: 846 cylinders, 128 heads, 63 sectors
fn 48: 6780 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
Warning: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for device
0x80
Kernel: 6781 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
BIOS: 846 cylinders, 128 heads, 63 sectors
Using BITMAP secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data
Mapping bitmap file /boot/bitmap/boot.bmp -> boot-shine256.bmp
Calling map_insert_file

Fatal: Repeated rule: disk 0x80, offset 0x1c2, 0x16 -> 0x06
-----------------------------------------------------------

I have no idea why you had that junk in the global section of lilo.conf
file. Why not get rid of it? (since you removed that part in your response
I cannot even tell you exactly which part it was. )



When I # the ntfs rules, mbr is written (as before), but still
all of the grumbling. LILO hates me!

Your bios and disk disagree. Lilo SHOULD grumble. It is a dangerous
situation. But if the mbr is written, what is your problem?Does it boot?
That is ALL that lilo is supposed to accomplish-- letting you boot your
system.


I tried to slapt-get grub, but it is not in the repository.
Wow. Everybody in Holland uses lilo, eh? No more time to
chase this now, but will install my friend grub later.

Incidently: the large swap was necessary to install Vector.
First attempt aborted half way through ... swap was 400 mB.
Making it 500 mB (as recommended by installer) fixed it.

One good thing about struggling with old machine: it feels
soooo good to go back to modern box!

.

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