[plug] lilo error message 0x40 and BIOS data check successful

[Caleb Duggan]

is it a gigabyte motherboard? i had heaps of problems once on an old  
gigabyte board where the UDMA ports were really problematic and the  
bootloader had intermittent problems because of it(and my brother had the  
same board and same problems). I can't remember exactly what the errors  
were though.

to fix the problem, I ended up using the drive through an usb ide  
controller because the drive wasen't compatible with the non-udma channels.

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:01:16 +0800, Clare Johnstone <claregj at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Dear Plug,
>
> Using lilo 22.7.1  on a machine about 5 years old I think,  its BIOS is
> an Award dated 1984-2000. the disk I am booting is a Hitachi cheapie
> about 2 years old 80G size.
>
> Lilo often stops with an error 0x40 and needs a retry, one or two  
> retries get me
> to the point where it says "BIOS data check successful" which is what it
> normally says anyway.
>
> So my question is where does the message "BIOS data check successful"  
> come from?
> I can't (due to poor c skills ?) find it in lilo source.
>
> The original error the advice from lilo is:
> 0x40   "Seek failure". This might be a media problem. Try booting again.
> Has anyone had this and found it got steadily or suddenly worse?
>
> thanks
> clare johnstone
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