That particular problem ( getting to LI and hanging) is usually caused by
the kernel not being withing the 1st 1024 of the disk. I don't know why
swapping motherboards would affect this, unless you put the drive on a
different IDE/SCSI device than it was on before.
Kenny
At 11:16 AM 3/3/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I swapped motherboards between 2 of my linux machines
>both machines were running RH 6.0 at the time, and booted fine from
>their hard disks
>after swapping boards I had to use a boot floppy to boot the machines.
>after running lilo both machines still failed to boot from the hard disk
>I get 'LI' and nothing else.
>all the documentation I've read indicates this problem should be solved
>by re-running lilo, which I had done.
>
>I tried various edits of lilo.conf and re-running lilo to no avail.
>I grabbed the latest lilo rpm and installed it...
>I recompiled my kernel, still the same error
>I re-installed linux, still doesn't work...
>
>I'm about to low-level format the drive and re-install
>
>I figured I'd ask if anyone has any suggestions first.
>
>Box 1:
>
>AMD k6-2/350, IDE disk, partitions haven't been changed so I doubt it's
>the lilo # of cylinders problem.
>
>df
>
>Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda2 995147 39587 904152 4% /
>/dev/hda3 8496383 2583489 5472312 32% /usr
>
>more /etc/lilo.conf
>
>boot=/dev/hda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=5
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda2
> read-only
>
>Box 2:
>
>AMD Athlon, SCSI and IDE, LILO was originally installed on sda1, and
>worked fine, I have tried it on both sda and hda, neither works. again,
>partitions haven't changed.
>
>this box also has windows on the ide disk, linux is on the scsi disk
>
>df
>
>Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/sda1 893986 41427 806374 5% /
>/dev/sda3 2974550 617400 2203328 22% /usr
>/dev/sda4 4632493 2713637 1679086 62% /home
>
>more /etc/lilo.conf
>
>boot=/dev/sda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15-2.5.0
> label=linuxnew
> root=/dev/sda1
> read-only
>
>
>Bryan
>
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