[techtalk] lilo error - L 00 00 00...

[Tang, Joyce]

>From reading the docs, I know that lilo can't load the second stage boot
loader, and the error code of 00 seems to point to a geometry problem of the
hd? When I use a boot disk to run e2fsck /dev/hda2 (linux /), I get the
mesg: Filesystem has unsupported features while trying to open /dev/hda2.
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.... same message for all other linux partitions (native,
non-swap).  I can't mount these partitions either.  (I mainly tried the /
one).  
 
This HD has a dos partition on hda1, lilo (if I remember correctly) was
installed on MBR. 
So does this sound like a lilo problem that can be corrected by
removing/reinstalling lilo, or something else worse?
 
I'm a newbie at this, I figure I could wipe out the HD and start fresh since
it's not a production box, but that also means I would never learn how to
fix it.  I don't know what's the best way to approach this, reinstall lilo?
kernel? dd something from my other box?  Please advise.
 
more info:  I'm running RH6.2 on 10G HD on PC, have several boot disks of RH
and other distro lying around (does it matter that they have 2.0.x
kernels?), another linux box w/ debian and up-to-date kernel, T-1
connection. This problem stemmed from a proper shutdown/reboot sometime ago,
the shutdown was fine, boot up got screwed. 
 
Joyce
 
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