Re: LILO no boot .. says "LIL-" then just hangs there

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From: pip
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 23:20

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Counts wrote:
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> I installed everything successfully (Slackware 4.1), recompiled a kernel,
> rebooted, everything worked as expected.  Then, not long afterwards on
> another reboot, LILO just hangs.  I have to boot using a floppy now.  Any
> suggestions on how to fix this?
> 
> Should I uninstall LILO and then re-install?

No, LILO prints LILO on the screen to indicate each stage of startup,
therefore LIL actually gives you the error message that you should be
able to find in the LILO documentation.

As the other poster suggests it could be a BIOS problem - so maybe you
could locate /boot in your first primary partition. 

Also I have heard good things about the GRUB bootloader.

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