I'm at the end of my wits on an install-gone-wrong. Is it time to wipe my hard drive slick??? Here's my situation:
I installed Linux at the end of a 30 GB drive (way beyond the 1024 limit, which I learned about after the fact), and LILO wrote to the MBR "bad geometry", leaving the machine unbootable from the hard drive for Win2K or Linux (I can still boot from floppy to DOS or Linux).
Currently, when the machine boots from the hard drive, I see "L 00 00 ..." (repeat to \infty). I have tried every trick I could find to uninstall LILO and recover my old MBR. First I changed my lilo.conf file to say boot=/dev/hda1 and ran /sbin/lilo. Then I tried,
"dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1"
"dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1"
"fdisk /mbr" (from dos)
"lilo -U /dev/hda" (got this one from the MS web site!)
Nothing has worked, still "L 00 00 00 00 ...." At this point, I'm just trying to make the machine bootable and save my Windows setup. Otherwise, I have to wipe the drive and get on with my life....
Here is my lilo.conf:
# begin file
boot=/dev/hda1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda7
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
#end file
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