Boot loader troubles

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Date: 19 Jan 2004 21:25:30 -0800

Hello,

 I seem to have managed to break my boot loader. It's a strange
problem that I'm having troubles wrapping my head around, so I hope
someone
here can help me out. Hopefully I can explain it properly. It seems
to have started the other night when I tried to use the redstorm
overclocking feature in my bios. It didn't work out as I rendered my
system un-bootable. After playing with the bios for awhile I was able
to get the boot loader to load, but if I selected the linux-enterprise
kernel (Mandrake 9.2) Lilo would give me the following error:
Error 0x01
0 - keytable read/checksum error
However it can load the "linux" kernel in runlevel 5 and failsafe
mode, but when I boot into runlevel 5 with that kernel none of my
settings
in the XF86Config-4 file are loaded and my display is all screwed up.
I
tried re-installing lilo with no success, and if I install Grub, it
will not load at all giving my a Read Error while loading stage 2 or
stage 1.5.

The strange thing is that if I power down the machine for awhile then
lilo will load the linux-enterprise kernel no problem, saying Bios
Data Check Successful, but once I reboot the computer I get the error
message again.

As you can see it doesn't make sense to me. I've tried googling for a
solution, but I've found nothing concrete although some of what I have
found points to the bios sending incorrect hard drive parameters to
the boot loader, so once again I think that I broke it by messing
around
in the bios.

I really hope someone has some idea as to what is going on here.

TIA,

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