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Case and Cooling Fetish CPU & Motherboard Technologia Mobile Computing Outpost Networking Matrix Other Hardware Agora Classifieds Ars DIY Forum (Name TBD!) Operating Systems & Software Battlefront Microsoft OS & Software Colloquium Linux Kung Fu Windows Technical Mojo Distributed Computing Arcana Macintoshian Achaia Programmer's Symposium The Server Room Ars Lykaion Gaming, Extra Strength Caplets The Lounge The Soap Box The Boardroom The Observatory Ars Help & Feedback Ars Subscription Member Areas Image Galleries Boot error 0x40 6 posts Corona688 Ars Praetorian Registered: Mar 13, 2003Posts: 432 Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2003 4:41 pm Fortunately, I'm not talking about my home machine here. There is a lab full of computers at the U of R which are dual-boot systems(triple-boot, actually; Win98, Redhat, and Dos 6.22).. when I restarted one machine and selected 'Linux' in the bootmenu, I got the usual 'loading linux' thing for a split second, then the dreaded lineError 0x40I hit enter, hoping to bypass it, and it tried again, getting the same error... third time lucky, though - it managed to boot and worked without further complaints.Figuring this to be a fluke, I tried a computer across the lab - - and got the EXACT SAME ERROR! This time it managed to boot on the second try. And since it's more likely a configuration problem than two computers having the exact same failing hard drive, a couple things occur to me...1) The techs here don't seem to be particularly smart. It took 'em 2 months to realize that their install of MS-Word was broken on the W98 machines, and they only do maintenance to these machines once a month(!) - and even then generally trust to the magic of drive-ghosting to solve all problems. Perhaps they managed to fudge up the partitions on the triple-boot
Home Sophos UTM 9 Sophos XG Firewall Web Appliance General Malware [Beta] Malware Course Sophos Intercept X Sophos Wireless Knowledge Base Blog Sophos UTM 9 http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=698773 Hardware, Installation, Up2Date… Lilo error 0x40 after ins… UTM 9 Release Notes UTM Wiki Knowledge Base Sub-Groups Cancel This group requires membership for participation - click to join https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/f/hardware-installation-up2date-licensing/23067/lilo-error-0x40-after-installing/63843 Thread Info State Not Answered Date Owen B Date 20 Oct 2001 1:18 PM Replies 1 reply Subscribers 1 subscriber Views 11 views English Suggested Have a cool product idea or improvement? We'd love to hear about it! Click here to go to the product suggestion community Lilo error 0x40 after installing HiIamnewtoASLandarehavingaprobleminstallingona30GBSamsungHDD.Theinstallgoesfine,butwhenIrebootIgetLILOprompt,theASLbanner,thena"Error0x40"error.AfterdoingaquicksearchonthewebIhavefoundoutitissomethingtodowithbaddiskgeometryand/orbadseek.Thediskisalmostbrandnew(ithadpreviouslybeenformattedNTFSforashortwhile,butneverused).ThemodelnoisSV3002H.IhavetriedinstallingusingLargeandLBAmode(thatprovedtobeacompletedisaster)andtriedthediskonitsownIDEcableaftersharingwiththeCD-ROMdidn'tworkout-butIkeepgettingtheerroreachtime.Anyhelpwouldbegreatlyappreciated.Manythanks,Owen Cancel Owen B 0 20 Oct 2001 7:12 PM HiIdiscoveredtheproblem-some'default'settingsintheBIOSneededchanging.Owen Sophos Footer T&Cs Help Cookie Info Contact Support © 1997 - 2016 Sophos Ltd. All rights reserved.
/ November22, 2015; 10 months ago(2015-11-22) Repository lilo.alioth.debian.org/ftp/sources/ Development status discontinued Type Bootloader License BSD license Website lilo.alioth.debian.org LILO (LInux LOader) is a boot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LILO_(boot_loader) loader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions in the years after the popularity of loadlin. Today, many distributions use GRUB as the default boot loader, but LILO and its variant ELILO are still in wide use. Further development of LILO was discontinued in December 2015 along with a lilo error request by Joachim Weidorn for potential developers. Contents 1 Overview 2 LILO files 2.1 lilo.conf 2.2 /boot/ 3 Master boot record 4 Output 5 Error codes 6 ELILO 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 External links Overview[edit] LILO does not depend on a specific file system, and can boot an operating system (e.g., lilo error 0x40 Linux kernel images) from floppy disks and hard disks. One of up to sixteen different images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can be placed in the master boot record (MBR) or the boot sector of a partition. In the latter case, the MBR must contain code to load LILO. At system start, only the BIOS drivers are available for LILO to access hard disks. For this reason, a very old BIOS access area is limited to cylinders 0 to 1023 of the first two hard disks. For a later BIOS, LILO can use 32-bit "logical block addressing" (LBA) to access the entire capacity of the hard disks the BIOS has access to. LILO files[edit] lilo.conf[edit] The lilo.conf file is typically located at /etc/lilo.conf. Within lilo.conf there are typically two section types. The first section, which defines the global options, contains parameters which specify boot locat