Ceres
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Posted: Jan. 24 2006,17:21 |
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Thank you Daklander and Skaos.
My problem wasn't precisely the same, but close enough that the info you provided was sufficient to solve it.
I have a DSM (the nano-ITX) with a 512Mb internal Compact Flash which acts like a CD version (frugal). I had already successfully upgraded (with a fresh install) from 2.0 to 2.1. When I saw that 2.1b was out I decided to do the same and see if I could add a default setting for myDSL. The fresh installs were pretty painless because I hadn't done any more than some Firefox configuration.
I followed the procedure of installing to a USB, booting to the USB and doing an frugal install of dsl-2.1b.iso to hda1 using a LILO option. Before the install finished something flashed in the temporary terminal window which disappeared too quickly and the system rebooted. My auto retore was pointing at hda1 also and while it was doing the pre-shutdown copy it began pumping out errors, some of which told me that KNOPPIX had been hit.
Not a good feeling as I let it start booting up on hda1 - sure enough it failed. That was Sunday night ("now" is Tuesday noon-ish) and I don't remember if the error was "not a boot disk" but I think it was.
Since then I have spent all of my free time (and some of my expensive time) trying to recover. I did several versions of sfdisk and at some point I ws able to bring it up on a regular hard-disk install, but I didn't want to stay there because that would eat up the CF write limit. When I tried to do a frugal install over that, a boot just got me the "L 99 99 99 ..... 99" response.
I found your conversation by searching the forums for "boot AND lilo AND 99". Skaos' advice and Daklander's positive response led me to believe that I would be able to do the same thing.
I formated the partition as "0 993 L *", wrote the MBR block, did a standard install then did a frugal Grub install.
Joy!
Thank you both.
Dave
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