I seem to remember a HOWTO that covered exactly that. Large HD and the LILO
only getting to LI and locking up.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jaime Batiz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 5:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Problem with LILO persists
Thank you everybody for your comments. There might be something else wrong
here because LILO refuses to start.
I decided to mess with one boot sector at the time, so I went with the
miniHOWTO on Linux-NT. This means I am using NT bootloader and I added an
entry for linux in boot.ini
Whenever I try to start LILO, all I get on the screen are the characters
LIL- then the computer hangs. I have tried to make a floppy the boot device
and I get the same problem.
Mandrake partitioned the HDD (hdc, 22GB master, on the secondary IDE
controller) as follows:
hdc1: /boot (9.5MB)
hdc5:/ (1.1GB)
hdc6:(swap)
hdc7:/home (19GB)
lilo.conf looks like:
boot=/dev/hdc1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc5
append=""
read-only
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-up
root=/dev/hdc5
append=""
read-only
The only thing that works is the boot floppy that Mandrake created at
installation time.
My question is: What does it mean when LILO only gets to LIL-?
any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
Jaime
