On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Jim Roland wrote:
> Not booting I just loaded a new PII-266 system with Linux 2.0.30
> (Slack 3.3) and now when LiLo boots via the MBR on the ide drive, it LILO
> comes up, boots the kernel, and the kernel boots. It get to the point of
> mounting read-only, and then just stops with no disk activity.
>
> I can boot with a LILO diskette by supplying "mount root=/dev/hda6" as
> parameters, and it goes to the same point, mounts read-only, checks the
> drive, then remounts as read-write and goes its merry normal way.
>
> I have tried reinstalling LILO, and even redoing the kernel. No luck.
> The Kernel is okay since it's being booted from a LILO diskette just fine.
>
> Help!
Did you move the kernal image from /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage
(or whatever) to /vmlinuz ?
is /vmlinux correctly referanced in /etc/lilo.conf
did lilo say adding /dev/hda6 when it was fiddling with the boot sector ?
or something like blah out of range ?
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