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From: Sasa Ostrouska
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:00

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

Check the file /etc/lilo.conf if the file has the root partition set well
rerun /sbin/lilo and zou should be set up.
Bye Sasa

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