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New Linux wont load?

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robisc

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I Just installed Mandrake on an old P166 and when it is booting after the POST and all that after the verifying DMI Pool data I am getting L 01 and nothing else, what is wrong here?
 
Lilo's messed up. If you have a boot disk then boot w/ that and reinstall Lilo. If not then reinstall Mandrake (or something better).
 
How big is the drive? Do yuou have a seperate boot partition? Is it located at the beginning of the drive?

You can reinstall lilo by running /sbin/lilo but I don't think a reinstall is going to help, lilo is unhappy in its position on the drive I do believe!

fwiw: See this is why lilo is crap, its antics drive away new people.......if only more distros came with better boot loaders.
 
The drive is an 8 GB HDD, as far as how it is partitioned since this is to be a dedicated Linux box to be honest I just let mandrake set up the partitions the way it wanted and didn't pay attention to how it did it.
 
Lilo shoudl work from anywhere on an 8gb drive. If you can't get it to work though then Mandrake can also install GRUB. There's also 2 or 3 more floating about. Just do a search for boot loader on freshmeat. Note: I've never tried anything but Lilo and Grub so I don't know how those others work.

littleprince: Nothing's wrong w/ Mandrake if you're an extreme newbie or if you want a fairly plain out of the box setup. However, if you want to change around your system to your preferences, optimize it, etc., then Mandrake is just too jumbled around and messy to deal with. Even though it's not quite as user-friendly (until you get it), Slackware (and I've heard Debian, though it's been years since I ran Debian.) is much more cleanly organized and easy to configure to the way you want it, at least for me.
 
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