According to Thomas Olenio: While burning my CPU.
>
> 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
Its 'mount root=/dev/hda2' not 'root=/dev/hda2'
> 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
^^^^^
This is causing at least one problem, it should be /dev/hda not 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Delete this line, or comment it out.
> # 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?
Check to see if linux detects the correct disk geometry.
It must be the same as is described on the disk itself or its documentation,
sometimes the BIOS when in autodetect, can return bogus values on large
disks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
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Regards Richard.
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