On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 16:00, Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote:
>       Sorry for this coming from Outlook.

Nobody's perfect. ;-)

>       I've got this new CPU and motherboard, and RAM, or rather 2nd hand.
>       Anyway, my RedHat 7.1 hard disk, which dual boots between 2k and
> RH7.1.
>       I am getting this error on boot up in which lilo stops at L.

LILO prints each letter as it completes a specific part of the boot
process.  The fact that it stops after the first L is significant.  From
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/a1483.html :

"Output: L      The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started, but
it can't load the second stage boot loader. The two-digit error codes
indicate the type of problem. (See also section ``Disk error codes''.)
This condition usually indicates a media failure or a geometry mismatch
(e.g. bad disk parameters)."

So, sounds like the old and the new motherboard are using different
addressing schemes.  I'd check and make sure the two BIOSen detect the
drive the same.

HTH,
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