Description of problem:
Boot failed after install due to issues between old lilo and current lilo.

Previously:
I have lilo from Mandriva 2009 installed on sda.  At various subsequent linux installs into sda2, sda3 or sda5 I've installed the boot code into that sda partition rather than root of sda, then just edited lilo.conf in the 2009 partition with a couple of "other=" and "label=" lines and re-run lilo to access the newly installed partition.

Now: did the same, installing mageia lilo into sda2, but reboot failed with that old L 99 99 99 99 screenful. Booting older rescue DVD, chroot to the older mounted partition, running lilo didn't fix.  Using old Mandriva rescue DVD's to reinstall old windows boot didn't fix.


Fix was ultimately simple.  Just replace the old 2009 or 2010 lilo at sda with current lilo from the mageia DVD.  Worked like a charm after that.

The issue that stumped me for a while was how installing lilo only to the mageia sda2 partition and not touching the sda lilo from 2009 could kill the system booting.  Any ideas?  Any ongoing issues?


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