On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Jeroen Van de Voorde wrote about, Upgrade hardware / LILO-SW7.0
Bug?:
> Hi all,
>
> finaly got all the pieces to upgrade the hardware:
> From: AT case, K6-2 233 + motherboard
> To: ATX case, PII 300 + motherboard
> All the other stuff is still the same.
> One small remark,
> No, no, first of all, thanx for the help from you all. Indeed the
> original kernel booted the new hardware perfectly, except for the loader
> (LILO) it got stuck at:
> LILO..........................
> and it did that over and over again.
> I tried with booting from the Slackware 7.0 CD-Rom and that wenth fine
> (adding the line 'vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 load_ramdisk=0 initrd=')
> And reinstalling LILO.
> What I've noticed is that when running the setup, and installing a new
> LILO from scratch I got just LI when booting, no mather installing in
> expert nor automaticly.
That sounds like a geometry problem the disk cyls is quite possable set to
more than 1024 which would irritate lilo.
> I looked at the lilo.conf file and there were some things missing:
> message = /boot/boot_message.txt
> prompt
That should not affect lilo in the sense of giving LI as a prompt.
> were missing. As I couldn't recollect the excact things so I could put
> them there myself, I tried it a few times, changing between automatic
> and expert install, it finally did it by itself and everything is fine
> now.
Then you possably dont have lilo on the MBR as above you said lilo works
with vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 load_ramdisk=0 initrd=
>
> Is this something todo with LILO or with the Slackware setup program who
> installs LILO by itself?
> It is strange that when running the same program a few times it makes it
> most of the time makes the same mistake, or am I wrong?
LILO will always have problems with a disk that is set to more than 1024
cyls, that is only if the root filesystem partition is not completly within
1023 cyls. If it is outside then lilo will not operate from the MBR.
>
> Well, last but not least, Linux is now running fine.
Well at least you seem to have solved your own problems, however its nice
to hear just HOW the problems were solved.
On that note, Ray, Lawson and myself have said before its always a good idea
to send a message saying what solved your problems, that way one can direct
another person with the same problems to the archives for his answer(s).
>
> Greetings to you all, and to all a good night.
> Jeroen
>
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