I have experience this one.
It happen to me when I didn't set up my harddisk on the Bios. I have
three harddisk with different manufacturer and size. I was using Win98
on my primary and primary slave HD, then on secondary HD is my Linux
Disk. I have to set my HD phisically transfering the cable just to boot
on Linux and to do that I will also set again the bios for the HD
configuration. Then I accidentally forgot to set the bios for my HD
when I try to boot up as Linux. And having that mistake end up with a
prompt of "LI" then stopped. But after I set it up again, it work again
and was able to boot on Linux
And regarding your other new problem. I think you have selected to boot
up on the drive thru your bios setup? (Instead booting up on C drive you
have boot up on D, right?). Cause I have already tried that one too.
Linux don't work on that one, cause Lilo searches the files which is
located on its MBR or first cylinder of ur HD, so it won't work. And
also booting on the Lilo disk won't also save you.
hmm...I'm still looking some ways to boot up on Linux without creating
or tampering with my Win98 HD. does anybody have some suggestions?
gamie :)
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> I think I may have a serious problem.
>
> When I reboot my machine the LILO prompt gets as far as LI and
> then stops.
>
> The machine has win98 on the primary master hd and RH6 which I
> installed last night on the Primary Slave. It has rebooted since to
> Win 98 at least a couple of times successfully and to Red Hat a
> couple of times or more.
>
> I tried rebooting from my RH6 Custom boot disk. It produced the
> full LILO prompt and then said,
> Press return or wait 10 seconds to boot your RedHat Linux from
> /dev/hdb7. If you want to use a rescue disk, type "rescue" now.
> boot:
>
> When I hit enter it says:
>
> Loading Linux
> Error 0x10
>
> When I type rescue I get the same error.
>
> So, then I rebooted from a win98 rescue disk. I can read the
> directory of the C drive that win98 lives on and running scan disk
> produced an OK to everything except it gave a "free space
> incorrect" error which it corrected.
>
> After that, it still stops part way through the LILO prompt.
>
> LILO is on the C drive where win98 lives.
>
> My hunch is that win98 overwrote it somehow although I don't know
> why as nothing new has been installed there or changed since I
> last used each OS successfully.
>
> Golly, I hope there is a solution to this. Anyone know what it is?
>
> Please cc any responses to my email address as I am using
> another machine and may not find responses addressed only to
> the list.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ken Walker
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
