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>B. LILO boot error codes</A
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>Questions about these codes are asked so often on Usenet that we include
them here as a public service. This summary is excerpted from Werner
Almsberger's <A
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> When LILO loads itself, it displays the word
<TT
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some specific action. If LILO fails at some point, the letters printed so
far can be used to identify the problem.</P
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> No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed or
the partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active.
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> The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started, but it
can't load the second stage boot loader. The two-digit error
codes indicate the type of problem. (See also section ``Disk error
codes''.) This condition usually indicates a media failure or a
geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters).
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> The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by
a geometry mismatch or by moving <TT
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>/boot/boot.b
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without running the map installer.
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> The second stage boot loader has been started, but it can't load
the descriptor table from the map file. This is typically caused
by a media failure or by a geometry mismatch.
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> The second stage boot loader has been loaded at an incorrect
address. This is typically caused by a subtle geometry mismatch or
by moving <TT
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>/boot/boot.b</TT
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map installer.
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> The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a
geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map
installer.
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>LILO</TD
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> All parts of LILO have been successfully loaded.
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>If the BIOS signals an error when LILO is trying to load a boot image, the
respective error code is displayed. These codes range from
<TT
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>0xbb</TT
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