Re: LI problem.

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From: dagger
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:00

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In article <01be8a43$b9807cc0$5fa7868b@bsm>, "Brett McSweeney"
<bsm@bigpond.com> wrote:

>> 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

It's set to boot off /dev/hda1, when i boot off the disk and enter vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda1 read-only at the boot prompt, it loads fine. :\

Thanks anyway,

-- 
dagger
<mailto:dagger@bayside.net>
(Too much blood in my caffeine system...)

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Subject: Re: LI problem.
Date: 1999/04/19
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