On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Scott Fritzinger wrote: > >>Red Hat 7 install. 192 megs of memory (three 64 megs dimms), 16 meg AGP, 40 > >>GIG HD, K2/500 processor. Install goes great. Then the reboot. Reboot > >>goes to L and hangs. Put Linux Boot disk in and it will boot to Red Hat 7. > >> > >>Conclusion: MBR troubles. The LILO didn't install correctly as it hangs on > >>the Hard Drive Master Boot Record and can't get past the L to LILO. Booting > >>from floppy does fine. > > Yup, this is a "1024 cylinder" problem. You can boot from a bootdisk to > 'get in'. Put in the bootdisk and at the prompt type in: > linux root=/dev/hdXX initrd= > where 'hdXX' is the drive/partition where you installed linux. This > should bring you up to a prompt. > > Then, when logged in, edit lilo.conf and add: > lba32 > near the top of the file (anywhere is fine). Save it, and then run > lilo > > and see if it spits out a warning about 'lba32' not being recognized. If > it isn't recognized, then you will need to update lilo to a newer > version that supports booting past the 1024 cylinder boundary. If it > doesn't spit up, then it should have 'taken' and you can reboot.
You could also add a /boot partition at the front of the drive (within the 1024 cylinder boundary). The /boot partition only needs to be 16MB max if you use lilo - much larger if you use grub. I had a similar problem upon installation of RH7.1. My /boot partition was past the 1024 cylinder boundary and I kept getting the dreaded sig11 error and could not install. The sig11 error is supposed to be an indication of memory, processor, or mobo hardware faults. Fred _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
