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From: Tim @ Home <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] LILO hangs at 'LI' on 9GB IDE drive on Mandrake 6.1,
but works fine on 6.0
> Hoyt,
> Thanks for the response. i just posted a response to few guys who
responded
> to my posting. Check it out if you can. I am interested in trying this
> /boot option. However, regarding the boot floppy, the boot disk created
> during the install also hangs on 'LI', just as the IDE drive does. Linear
> mode results in a screen full of scrolling '1's and '0's ( at least it
> doesn't hang at 'LI'!!!)
>
> Does this give you any clues. Please let me know if you need more info.
>
That was what my 386 was doing. During the install, it wouldn't write lilo
to the mbr and wouldn't make a bootdisk (had the same problem and worse with
RH6.1 - it's broken pretty bad.)
I used a working boot disk from another system that also booted from
/dev/hda1 and at the lilo prompt, hit <tab> to show the kernels available.
If you don't have a working boot disk, use the install boot disk and the
rescue disk.
I then chose:
linux CHS=c/h/s
where c/h/s were the cylinders, heads and sectors of the drive I was using
(this by-passes the BIOS settings - it seems that you can actually run from
a drive that the mobo won't install in the BIOS setup!)
Rather than continue to mess around with the broken installation, try
re-installing with the boot trick. Life is too short unless you really want
to learn stuff about Linux you may never need again.
Hoyt
