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Re: LILO not booting (new install)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Fri Nov 8 14:26:10 1996
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 13:50:27 -0500
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From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
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> Hi, it may be a newbie question, but I found no help in the
>FAQ/archives. I just installe RedHat 4.0 on my portable, via FTP and a
>PCMCIA card. Everything smooth, except that LILO seems broken. After
>finishing the installation, when I try to reboot, I just get, on the
>screen, the 2 letters "LI", with the cursor flashing after it. Note
>that if I boot from the floppies everything seems to be in place on
>the disks, I even tried to reconfig LILO by hand, but nothing
>changed...
you might check your bios settings to make sure they are set proper
for your hard disk, however large it might be. You might, if you can,
try start the install, and use the root disk to mount your hard drive
and try and rewrite the LILO boot sector, in either MBR or the superblock
whichever you installed it on. I had a similar problem on my machine for
a while since I had a 1.275 gig hd, I disabled 32 bit transfer mode in my
bios, and enabled LBA if I remember correctly. I think also, something
about the ftp install has always hosed lilo, you might try and make sure
you have the newest boot and suppliment disk images.
Darron
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