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Bill Tourloupis wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> It has been a while since I last posted to the newsgroup, so I am not
> certain whether the questions I am about to ask have already been
> asked and/or answered.  However, here it goes....
>
> I have been successful at installing RedHat 6.0 on my Pentium 233MHz
> PC.  As I am sharing this PC with other people in the house, I have
> installed
> linux on the second hard drive that I purchased a couple of months ago,
> which is a 20GB LBA Western Digital hard disk drive.
>
> There are, however, a few problems that I am experiencing with my setup,
> that of which are summarised below:
>
> 1. I am unable to boot linux off the primary root partition.
>     I have installed LILO on the primary root partition, and have flagged
> this
>     partition as bootable, however, for some reason I am unable to boot
> linux
>     off it.  Whenever I do, I get "LI" being displayed, which suggests that
> LILO
>     does not to recognise the disk geometry of the hard drive.  No matter
> what
>     I do to resolve the problem, I am still getting the same result.
>
>     Note that I have done the proper thing of creating and installing LILO
> below
>     cylinder 1024, as the HOWTO's suggest.  Also note that the root
> partition
>     containing LILO and the kernel exists well below cylinder 1024.
>
> 2. Problems with amd - Automatic Mound Daemon.
>     The Automatic Mount Daemon (amd) takes a long time to initialise itself
>     when booting or rebooting linux.
>
> 3. Problems shutting down linux.
>     Every time I try to shutdown linux with the halt option, I get a whole
> lot of
>     junk of what seems to be machine code being displayed on the last
>     (halt) command.
>
> If anybody has come across similar problems, and has resolved them, could
> they let me know.  It would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Tourloupis - vasilios@eisa.net.au

I get the same thing on shutdown
It says:
    system is halted
    shutting down all MD devices
    Gibberish
then after about 10 mins, if I let it go:
    OOPS!
    message about some interupts or kernel work needs to be done ?

Any suggestions?