Dual Boot lilo won't boot after first boot

[cane1832]

Ok hopefully this isn't annoying to anyone but this is annoying me to where i will post. So i have fallowed the steps to install BT3 with Vista previously installed. I install successfully and can boot BT3 one time after that lilo's boot load just displays an L on the left side of the screen and then over time adds 9A 99 99 99 99 99 99. I have uninstalled and reinstall about 9 times making minor adjustments to the lilo.conf file and even re-burned the iso to disk twice.

my laptop that i am trying to install on is : Toshiba L305-S5875

Note that the hardrive setup is :
SDA
\
sda1 : Toshiba System Volume
sda2 : Windows File System
sda3 : Linux Swap
sda4 : Ext3 { \ }

The step by step process i took was from this link
forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=16806

I would greatly appreciate any input towards making this work
Thank you for your time

also when i mount /dev/sda4 /boot and then cd /boot and do an ls
nothing appears the kernel isn't there.

Don't know if that means anything but thought i would add that.

Thank you

[cane1832]

Also if i mount /dev/sda2 /boot
and then cd /boot
then ls -a
the kernel isn't there.
Don't know if that means anything but i thought i would add that

Thank you for your time

[Ghost40]

When you boot, are you getting an error? Black screen? Anything at all?
Can you post your lilo.conf

[cane1832]

there is nothing on the screen other that the letter "L" and then over time it fallows with ( 9A 99 99 99 99 99 99 ) over and over. And as far as my lilo config it is default to what file is exept for the main parts which are

lba32
boot = /dev/sda
promt
timout = 60
change-rules
reset
vga = 773

image = /boot/vmlimuz
root = /dev/sda4
label = Backtrack3

other = /dev/sda2
label = Vista

[m1cha3l]

this is my lilo.conf

root = /dev/hda
message = /boot/boot_message.txt
prompt
timeout = 1200
change-rules
reset
vga = normal
other = /dev/hda1
label = Windows
table = /dev/hda
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda5
label = Linux
read-only

it may be the highlighted part that you are missing. Just a guess.

[cane1832]

Ok some weird stuff is going on so now i tried to reboot the computer and i put the live cd in and lilo came up so i boot into bactrack with the harddisk. From there i add the table = /dev/sda in the lilo.conf file in /etc

but now after saving that addon i go to run lilo -v

and it gives me : boot image: /boot/vmlinuz Fatal: open /boot/vmlinuz : no such file or directory

[imported_=Tron=]

Ok some weird stuff is going on so now i tried to reboot the computer and i put the live cd in and lilo came up so i boot into bactrack with the harddisk. From there i add the table = /dev/sda in the lilo.conf file in /etc

but now after saving that addon i go to run lilo -v

and it gives me : boot image: /boot/vmlinuz Fatal: open /boot/vmlinuz : no such file or directory

Did you remember to chroot into your HDD installation of BT first? Use the following commands to do this:

mount -o bind /dev /mnt/backtrack-partition/dev
chroot /mnt/backtrack/ /bin/bash

EDIT: You might also find the following thread helpful.

[cane1832]

So im pretty sure i didn't chroot into is but i rebooted and boot from the cd.
So i ran
mount -o bind /dev/ /mnt/sda4/dev
chroot /mnt/sda4 /bin/bash
nano /etc/lilo.conf ( made sure everything was the way i wanted it )
lilo -v

LiLO ver 22.8

Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not exist, disk scan bypassed!
Using MENU secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data

Boot other: /dev/sda2, on /dev/sda, loader CHAIN
Added Vista*

Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
Fatal: open /boot/vmlinuz: No such file or directiory


*Hitting head against wall very hard*
Kick ass name by the way Tron i like it

Thank you for your time

[cane1832]

Well i mounted the /boot and then it worked running the lilo -v
but still getting the black screen with the letter L and 9999's repeating

Huge whole in the wall now * Head Hurts*

thanks for your time
Hope someone can figure this out

[GileraGFR]

I can't post links but i had the same problem, can a mod edit my post with a link pretty please?

forums remote-exploit org/showthread.php?t=11692

As far as i could tell my MBR was messed up so deleting it and redoing lilo worked for me.

Just back anything up that's important.