On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:15:35PM -0700, Civileme wrote:
> On Saturday 12 May 2001 15:15, Jon Leech wrote:
> > The install went cleanly, but I'm having sporadic problems with
> > booting. Some of the time LILO 21.7 comes up with the graphical splash
> > screen, and selecting linux or linux-nonfb boots properly. Some of the
> > time LILO comes up in text mode, and selecting linux or linux-nonfb
> > hangs forever after printing 'Loading linux'. There is no apparent
> > pattern in when this happens.
[...]
> Let's see /etc/lilo.conf
>
> and fdisk -l /dev/hda
'fdisk -l /dev/hda' says:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 623 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 261 2096451 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 262 623 2907765 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 262 300 313236 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 301 606 2457913+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 607 623 136521 82 Linux swap
/etc/lilo.conf contains:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message-graphic
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
append=" quiet"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux-nonfb
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hda5
append=" failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
FWIW, since the initial post, my laptop seems to have evolved to a
state (or, I am replicating sequences of events without realizing it,
that keep it in that state) where booting from HD will freeze after
'Loading linux' in *all* cases, not just sporadically; the boot floppy
seems to be the only way to get the machine up now.
Jon
