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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?

> 1. I am unable to boot linux off the primary root partition.

Hello,

What do you mean under primary root partition? I have never heard about
"secondary" root partition.

> I have installed LILO on the primary root partition, and have flagged
> this partition as bootable,

Linux doesn't need the active (bootable) flag. In fact, you can have
multiple Linux installations with different root partitions on the same
disk.

> 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.

Excerpt from /usr/doc/lilo*/README:

   LI   The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
    loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
    geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map
    installer.

> Note that I have done the proper thing of creating and installing LILO
> below cylinder 1024, as the HOWTO's suggest.

If you use lilo for booting, then it should be in the first sector of
the disk. If you regularly use windows, then you can have it boot
Linux. Both Windows9x and NT can boot 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.

What messages? These can refer to hardware problems.

Vilmos

Bill Tourloupis wrote:

<snip>

> 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.
 
I had this problem it turn out to be related to my mother board a mvp3 based
epox board
I just flashed a newer bios that fixed the problem 
so if you have a mvp3 based board try your manufactures web site for a new bios

lots of luck
-- 
Keith McGaughran
Sydney Australia

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:24:07, Bill Tourloupis <vasilios@eisa.net.au> wrote:

> 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.

I had the same problem when I first installed lilo. 'lilo -l' (or adding 
'linear' in /etc/lilo.conf) fixed it.

Hope that helps,
-- 
Torkell
icq #43970757
aim: tonrmas

Bill Tourloupis wrote:
> 

Bill,

Try /sbin/lilo -v from the command prompt.  That should make sure there are no
probs with your /etc/lilo.conf


> 
> 1. I am unable to boot linux off the primary root partition.
>     I have installed LILO on the primary root partition, and have flagged

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--
Tim Kelley
tpkelley@winkinc.com
keltim@mindspring.com

Which Epox mobo are you using? I just picked a pile of EP58-MVP3C-M,
brand-new in the wrapper, and I'm going to (TRY!) and build a Beowolf
cluster.
Thanks, Jim