Boot issues (again)

[rabbit]

For no apparent reason it's started to not boot without a disk or Slack CD again.  I've rerun liloconfig and lilo like iago said (which worked before) many times.  I can't get it to work :\

I always get "invalid compressed format (err=2)" or some other one ("err=1", but only once).

Arg.

[iago]

After running liloconfig, run lilo.  liloconfig configures it, but lilo installs it.

[rabbit]

I do.  But what's the "Install" option in lilconfig then?

I've gone through the thing about 10 times...

[iago]

I do.  But what's the "Install" option in lilconfig then?

I've gone through the thing about 10 times...

Ok, then if LILO is giving you an error message when you boot, then try googling the error. 

[rabbit]

err=2 isn't really a message....

[deadly7]

Reinstall?

[iago]

err=2 isn't really a message....

Funny, I found tons of info by searching Google for 'lilo "err=2"'

As far as I can find, it means the kernel got corrupted (*shrug*). 

Update to the 2.6 kernel.  Boot into your installation (off cd2), mount cd2 (mount /dev/cdrom), go into the directory /mnt/cdrom/testing, and find the set called linux-2.6 (or something).  Once you're in the 2.6 directory, run "installpkg *.tgz" (or maybe *.tar.gz, I forget).  Then run lilo and reboot.  Hopefully that'll work. 

[rabbit]

I'll get around to it...

[rabbit]

*sigh*


Didn't work (install worked fine, but error is still there).

[Warrior]

Install GRUB on your MBR to fix the boot issue :)

[Joe]

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Install GRUB on your MBR to fix the boot issue :)

Nazi.

[Chavo]

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Install GRUB on your MBR to fix the boot issue :)

grub is insanely easy to use and in my experience is a lot easier to find documentation/help on.  I think it is definately better for a new user since you don't have to do anything every time you update the kernel.

[Warrior]

It has a flexible menu.lst for editing the entries and I've never had it fail to load. For windows you need to  chainload (easy as well) and it can read compressed kernels in a bunch of filesystems.

[rabbit]

I have no CD's and Sidoh's wire hasn't gotten here yet.  Hrm.