I had this problem after upgrading the BIOS on my motherboard.
This system has 2 IDE HD's, an IDE ZIP drive, 2 SCSI HD's and 2 SCSI CD's.
Linux is booting from the SCSI drives.
Before the BIOS update, the SCSI drives were 82 and 83.
After the update the ZIP drive became 82 and the SCSI drives were 83 and 84.
lilo couldn't figure this out on its own so I had to add two parameter lines to
lilo.conf equating /dev/sda
and /dev/sdb to BIOS drives 83 and 84.
I don't remember the exact format for this but it is in man lilo.conf
> I've installed RH6.1 on a pentium 133 w/ 64 megs ram. Installed large swap part.,
>12 meg boot part., and 2+ gig at /
>
> On bootup, all I get is the LI message, and nothing happens. I can use the boot
>floppy to get in just fine, but not booting from HD.
>
> This is an older macine with a bios limitation. I'm using a 4 gig drive, with the
>first partition reserved for win98. The 2.5 remaining is spread out over the
>partitions I mentioned above. I also had to install a hard drive utility on the
>first partition in order for the drive to be
recognized correctly as 4 gig. Otherwise, the bios incorrectly ID's it as 80 meg,
even with the most current BIOS update.
>
> Any suggestions to help me boot from the HD?
>
> Brian
>
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