It's one of two things: either you need to specify Linear protocol for Lilo to eliminate the 'LI' boot failure. Or you should re-detect your hard drive in your bios to make sure it has the correct properties [cylynders, size, etc] especially if you have used a drive installer to put in a large HD. Also, you may want to change the partition that LILO is using to boot from. Put it on /dev/hda1 instead of the boot sector. That can sometimes help. ~Magnus -- On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 20:57:03 Justin Johnson wrote: > >after several, several installs of MDK 7.1, i finally reached a point where >i could no longer boot with a floppy (as the boot device, a normal boot >disk worked fine). it would get to "stage 1" but no "stage 2" if i was >using grub, and get to "LI" without the "LO" if using LILO. > >and there it would stay, no disk activity and no floppy activity. > >i used a floppy to boot because i installed linux onto my second hard >drive, and kept my first drive completely untouched by linux. but even >after putting the boot loader on my main drive, just to see what happened, >i still got the same things. > >when booting with a boot disk for the first time after an install, i could >get into linux. but when trying it again, something was corrupted and it >couldn't mount the partition. > >my only conclusion is that i just simply gave my second hard drive such a >workout over several days of reinstallations, it had trouble finding and >switching to that partition upon booting. this drive is very prone to >errors and developing bad sectors, so i'm not surprised. > >but it's so disappointing after a few days at the beginning of successful >installations, to not even be able to run it in any manner. every day at >work i would look forward to getting home so i could play around in linux >some more (i'm fairly new to linux.) > >anyone else experienced anything like this? > >my only solution is that i'm building a new system soon anyway... i'll try >getting a brand new drive to try it out on again. > >--- >jj. > > Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com
