I /had/ RH5.2 running perfectly on my laptop (Gateway 2500, P266) and
decided to upgrade to RH6.1. I'm installing LILO in the MBR, as Linux is
the only OS on this machine. When the system is booting, instead of LILO:
it gets to LI and sticks, forcing me to power cycle.
I've turned off the Plug-N-Play and Large Disk options in my BIOS, but to no
avail. I've also done a clean re-install of 5.2 (which worked the first
time), a complete install of 6.1 (still sticking on LI) and finally went
back and did a complete reinstall of 5.2 (which is now also sticking on LI).
I've read the documentation on LILO, and apparently the "I" is displayed
right before the system starts the secondary boot loader. I don't know what
this means, but I have a feeling that its somehow related to the 1024
cylinder situation (but what do I know?).
fdisk shows the following:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 789 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id
System
/dev/hda1 * 4 67 51408
83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 4 789 6313545
5 Extended
/dev/hda5 781 789 72261 82
Linux swap
/dev/hda6 462 780 2562336 83
Linux native
/dev/hda7 68 461 3164773 83
Linux native
When I use the 5.2 recovery disk (since it's now sticking at LI as well), it
says it's loading from /dev/hda1 and from that point forward, it never
touches the floppy. So, apparently I can have a usable Linux system
provided that I always boot from the floppy. <g>
FYI, here's my lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=58
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=linux
root=/dev/hda1
read-only
Any ideas on where I should begin looking? I've tried to provide as much
information as possible. If you need more, just say the word. And please,
don't be afraid to speak with me as though I'm an idiot. You could be
right. <g>
--
Steve
