The problem lies in the drives geometry or boot order. Not having read
the original post, i cannot ascertain where you are booting from, but
based on experience if your IDE drive has over 1024 cyls you get Li and
a hanging system. re configure the geometry or boot off of the scsi.
Clay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Dan Browning (Network Admin) wrote:
>
> > System boots up and says "LI" instead of "LILO:" and locks up.
> >
> > After successfully adding a IDE 3.2 HDD to my system (which already has
> > a
> > 2GB SCSI, SCSI tape backup, and IDE CD-ROM). Booting into linux
> > normally,
> > and fdisking my new hdd for mostly ext2 except 15mb for swap. Then I
> > foolishly went and did a rpm -U *, on a directory full of updated RPMS
> > I had
> > downloaded (onto the new disk, btw).
>
> Was one of those RPM's lilo? And did you not then rerun lilo before
> booting again?
>
> >
> > I have boot and rescue disks, but I don't know how to use them. If I
> > boot
> > the boot disk, then use rescue disk, I can boot the system but I don't
> > know
> > what to fix. I can't mount /dev/sda1 or fdisk it.
>
> How _can't_ ? If RedHat's rescues disks are like anyone else's (I don't
> see why not), the tiny fs on the rescue disk is mounted on /, and no,
> you can't mount anything else on /. You should be able to mount it on
> some mount point on the rescue fs and get at it that way. /mnt should
> do, or if you have mkdir, you can make one. Or _oops_ is scsi support a
> module? Initrd on the boot disk should load it.. Are you using the
> install and supplemental disks with the rescue option, or have you made
> a rescue disk? You may need to do more install-type setup before trying
> rescue.
>
> >
> > I have tried removing the new IDE, doesn't help. I think if someone
> > told me
> > how to use the boot disk to access the image on my SCSI hdd, that would
> > help.
>
> I think you can't do this, unless the boot floppy was made on purpose to
> do it (the LILO bootloader does not read filesystems, but has to rely
> on a map made for it by the LILO installer), but when you see LILO,
> press a shift key, then tab to see what images you have. Then you can
> type <image> root=/dev/sda1 and see if you reach more familiar ground.
> Don't forget to rerun lilo.
>
> Well, maybe this will help.
>
> Lawson
> >< Microsoft free environment
>
> This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
> >
> > my AWARD BIOS:
> > boot seq: A,C,CDROM
> > HDD Sequence SCSI/IDE First: SCSI (scsi is the / drive, but neither
> > SCSI or
> > IDE switch helps the situation).
> >
> > What do I do?
> >
> > Dan Browning
> > Network Administrator
> > Cyclone Computer Systems
> >
> >
>
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