I had a similar issue (and still do) on a DIGITAL server.
It is a P2-233 with 64 ram and 8gig of HD I think.
Anyway, it works fine with a boot disk, but I keep getting the LI problem.
The same system works fine with RH. Mind you only if I do a complete
automated graphical install. The text install stuffs up with anaconda
errors.
Anyway, I used RedHat and DOS with FDISK to completely wipe the file system.
FDISK with /MBR to see if there was corruption, etc, etc, etc.
Still have no answer apart from a stack of boot floppies (As floppies always
die).
Cheers,
Richard.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 16 February 2001 8:56 AM
To: J-L Boers
Cc: E-Smith Dev List
Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] Re: LI at LILO prompt
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, J-L Boers wrote:
> #1
> LI at LILO prompt.
> Box is a HP vectra vl series P-III 450/128MB/30GB/EIDE CD.
> I let e-smith wipe out the single 30GB drive (previously had Netmax
> FIleserver), It does have /boot partition below 1024 cyl. It still seems
to
> be a geometry problem. BIOS sees entire drive. Would the "linear" option
> help?
It might. I've also found systems which would not install and boot until I
wiped the disk clean before doing a fresh install. I used:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
to wipe the disk clean.
> Netmax with a 2.2 kernel did not have this problem. I'll reboot
> tonight and see what happens.
It's unfortunate that it is a production machine and not one we are free
to test on. It would be good to have a "one size fits all" solution to
this problem.
> If still bad, then I'll add the linear
> argument to /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and see what happens.
I'd say that it should be safe to do that. Since you have a boot floppy
and know how to use it, you will be sage enough.
> BTW... boots fine off of the boot floppy and all my users did not know
> the difference. :) I was unable to reboot at the time as shift change
> was happening and everybody was accessing the box. I'll try again at
> 2:00am :)
What fun we have.
> #2
> server only configuration on e-smith. selected connection to an outside
> proxy. entered in the info and it seemed to take. DNS server entry was
made
> (only 1) for our company dns server. I am unable to access anything via
the
> proxy. I cannot even ping anything outside my lan. Inside the lan I can
ping
> IP's but not URL's. I'll look at this a little more in depth tonight. Any
> thoughts you guys can throw my way would be appreciated.
That sounds exactly like a default gateway setup error. Ar a filter on
your router.
> Again, the great part to this all was that none of the users even noticed
> the swapover. I spent 30 minutes re-mapping network drives and it was
> business as usual. Great Job guys!
Thanks for your generous words, and your assistance.
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