The porper way is to reinstall LILO. LILO can be installed in the boot
partition or on the master boot record of the drive. I suggest you first,
boot an MS-DOS disk, and run fdisk/mbr. Then check your /etc/lilo.conf,
and install lilo onto your master boot record.
On 3 Mar 00, at 11:16, [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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