Tom,
I don't see anything wrong,except maybe...
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Thomas Olenio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After installing Slackware 3.2 my system hangs at "LI"
> when booting.
>
> I ran lilo, rebooted and I still hung at "LI". I then
> rebooted with my lilo boot disk and at the # entered
> 'root=/dev/hda2' and re-ran lilo. Upon rebooting it
> hung again at "LI".
>
> This would mean problems with my disk geometry? Can
> anyone point me in the direction of a fix?
>
> When I run fdisk I get;
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 17 sectors, 873 cylinders
> Device boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 1 61 8287+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda2 62 62 873 110432 83 Linux
> native
>
> When I run free I get;
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 2540 2276 264 1448 68 772
> -/+ buffers: 1436 1104
> Swap: 8280 636 7644
>
> The lilo.conf file looks like this;
>
> # LILO configuration file
> # generated by 'liloconfig'
> #
> # Start LILO global section
> boot = /dev/hda2
> #compact #faster, but won't work on all systems.
> # delay = 5
> vga = normal # force same state
> # ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
> # End LILO global section
> # Linux bootable partition config begins
> image = /vmlinuz
> root = /dev/hda2
> label = Linux
> read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted
> read-only for checking
^^^ If it is like this in lilo.conf and not something your mailer
did, that will cause lilo to report an error and abort the install.
Anything lilo says besides "Added Linux *" is an abort message, unless
it starts with "Warn". That shouldn't be on a separate line, it's
intended to be part of the comment on the line above.
If that's not it, try something like
lilo -v -v &>oops
and include oops in your next letter.
Lawson
> # Linux bootable partition config ends
>
> This is a brand new install and I haven't touched a thing
> yet. Need anything else to help me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
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