I've just installed Linux (called Definite Linux) for the very first time, following a nice tutorial. Now I've got win98 on one HDD and Linux on another. Lilo was also installed, where I chose my win98 HDD as the place to install the "bootloader" and Linux as the default OS to load. It didn't look like there was any problems, so I restarted my computer. Now comes the weird part. When it's about to run Lilo, you know when it types LILO on the screen, instead of typing what it should(LILO), it types L 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10...... and so on. Soon the entire screen is filled with 1 & 0's. Although this gives a very nice Matrix effect I'd like to know what in the world could be wrong. I am able to boot my computer on a floppy, both win98(well, I can only boot into DOS) and Linux. When I boot with my Linux floppy, it runs LILO, but im unable to boot anything but Linux. If you need more info, please ask. - JakobI've just installed Linux (called Definite Linux) for the very first time, following a nice tutorial. Now I've got win98 on one HDD and Linux on another. Lilo was also installed, where I chose my win98 HDD as the place to install the "bootloader" and Linux as the default OS to load. It didn't look like there was any problems, so I restarted my computer. Now comes the weird part. When it's about to run Lilo, you know when it types LILO on the screen, instead of typing what it should(LILO), it types L 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10...... and so on. Soon the entire screen is filled with 1 & 0's. Although this gives a very nice Matrix effect I'd like to know what in the world could be wrong. I am able to boot my computer on a floppy, both win98(well, I can only boot into DOS) and Linux. When I boot with my Linux floppy, it runs LILO, but im unable to boot anything but Linux. If you need more info, please ask. - Jakob

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hi; I met that scenario twice before. I believe it has something to do with big hard drives and the way you partition(ex: where you mount /boot or /) . If it was LILO you would have seen L, LI, LIL, incomplete boot, etc., not zeroes that run on the screen. I have Linux on slave 8.4G and Win98 on the master, so when I distribute the file system, /boot must be the first partition before /. If / comes first and you write LILO into the MBR of HD-1 you will get that trouble. If that's your case, please boot with floppy and run /sbin/lilo -u /dev/hda or where you put it and use different measures. I believe LILO is quite easy and powerful as long as you use ext2 file system and understand how it works. good luck

You should try to fdisk/mbr on hda1 then you can either try and configure etc/lilo.conf and then run lilo, or reinstall lilo. I had the same problem on my single hard drive when the cylinder was over 1024 for the boot as well.

They are all right. Its your boot sector and LILO. Same thing happended to me when I first loaded Mandrake 7.0. Boot from a win boot disk, run fdisk /mbr then boot from your linux disk and rerun Lilo and that should fix it. It sounds like either your boot and root are in the wrong place or its expecting your hard drive to be in a different place (ie. you swapped the master and slave). Not a catasrophical problem, just a pain in the butt.