Re: LI problem.

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From: Brett McSweeney
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:00

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> I am currently installing Redhat 5.2 on a 486DX2/33, everything has
> installed fine - but when it tries to boot off the hardrive it hangs at
> where the LILO: prompt should be at LI
> 
> If I boot off the install floppy and enter vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
> read-only at the boot: prompt, it boots off the hardrive fine.
> 
> Any reccomendations on how to fix this? It's only a 520mb drive (485
> extended partition, and 32mb swap) so I doubt it suffers from the
> too-many-cylenders problem.
> 
> The other thing is, this machine only has 10mb of physical RAM - but this
> shouldn't be a problem?
> 

For what its worth, I had the same symptom...

By mistake I had used  boot=hda5 in /etc/lilo.conf
 (I have Windows on the first partition).
This stopped LILO at LI as in your problem because it tried
to boot off the fifth partition rather than off the MBR.

All I had to do to fix it was delete the 5, ie use boot=hda in the
lilo.conf file.

Brett McSweeney

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Date: 1999/04/19
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