argh! 40 40 40 40 40 40 40... at boot

[dijit]

Hi

I just installed slackware

Everything was going fine, I then decided to install a few packages using the pkgtool (evolution, xchat and gaim)

I then rebooted

and now all i get is


L40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 ...............etc.........

on the screen
:confused:

I looked this up on google and a few people have suggested editing the linux.conf file, however, I go to /etc/ and there is no lilo.conf file :confused: !!

can anyone help?
I dont want to reinstall

[mrBen]

The sort of error you describe normally means that there is either some sort of media failure, or the drive geometry is messed up. Normal causes are things like having your boot sector beyond the 1024 cylinder, or using a newer drive with an old BIOS.

You should have a lilo.conf though - not having it is not good.

You should be able to make yourself a boot disk to get back into your system and find out what went wrong.

[MrSwitch]

I had the same problem a week ago. Here to find out i accidently erased my boot partition. I had to boot off a liveCd and go back in a rebuild my boot files.

MrSwitch

[o0zi]

I think I loaded up a bootdisk and re-ran lilo to fix it, but I had "80 80 80 80" instead of "40 40 40 40".

[plattypus1]

Get in with a bootdisk, remake your lilo.conf file, and then run lilo again and tell us if it works.
If you need a model, here's my lilo.conf file set up for a single Gentoo system with a boot partition on hda1 and a root on hda2:
# Start LILO global section
menu-scheme=Wb
boot = /dev/hda
map = /boot/System.map
lba32
#if lba32 do not work, use linear
#linear
#if you always want to see the prompt with a 15 second timeout:
timeout=50
delay = 50
vga = normal # Normal VGA console
# End LILO global section
#Gentoo-Sources config begins
image = /boot/bzImage
root = /dev/hda2
label = linux
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