Lilo locking up ?

M$ISBS · 07-27-2011, 08:16 PM

When I shutdown and reboot lilo locks up showing "LIL" and freezes

there. The only thing I can do is to hit the reset button.

After that lilo runs through fine. Has anyone encountered this or

anyone have any ideas to fix this?

I changed the timeout to prompt and then commented out the bmp, then

I changed it back to the original lilo.conf but set the timeout to

10 and had the same lockup issue.

Is there a standard timeout that is supposed to be set?

Thanks

TobiSGD · 07-27-2011, 08:22 PM

According to this site:

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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 bad disk parameters in the BIOS.

I would check the drive with the manufacturers diagnosis tool and your LILO settings.

M$ISBS · 07-28-2011, 09:41 PM

Thanks for the link. I did not know that lilo had error codes like that.
I will look into the bios and see if theres is something incorrectly set.

M$ISBS · 08-01-2011, 10:26 PM

I found out that my bios keeps defaulting to the floppy drive as the default boot device no matter what I do.
When I change the first boot device to the HD it boots fine, but if I reboot or shutdown and startup, The bios switches back to the floppy then lilo locks up and I have to hit restart.
The floppy drive is not hooked up so I dont see why it would even give the floppy as an option.

Any way around this, other than trying to flash the BIOS?

vbisis · 08-02-2011, 02:38 AM

Bios update seems the best to me.
But maybe you can to disable your floppy controller?
Or at least disable the floppy drive completly in BIOS?

saulgoode · 08-04-2011, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by M$ISBS

When I change the first boot device to the HD it boots fine, but if I reboot or shutdown and startup, The bios switches back to the floppy then lilo locks up and I have to hit restart.
The floppy drive is not hooked up so I dont see why it would even give the floppy as an option.

Any way around this, other than trying to flash the BIOS?

Perhaps your motherboard's CMOS battery is dead and so your custom BIOS settings aren't being retained?

M$ISBS · 08-04-2011, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by saulgoode

Perhaps your motherboard's CMOS battery is dead and so your custom BIOS settings aren't being retained?

Thats a possibility, didnt think of that. I will test the battery. I remember clearing it once but I didnt check the battery.

M$ISBS · 08-14-2011, 12:03 PM

I checked the battery and it is good. I even tried another one and I still get LIL.... and freezing up at boot. When I hit the reset button it boots up fine? I am thinking of just leaving the computer on all the time....

afreitascs · 08-14-2011, 12:18 PM

there may be some issue in battery circuit...

Remove all cards from the motherboard, processor, etc. and try to do a good cleaning, well done, on the motherboard.