On 4 Aug 2000, George Georgiev wrote:

> Hi everybody, 
> 
> i was trying to install Red hat 6.2 after i had installed win98. However in
> the installation i checked the boxes to start from MBR, and 'dos' as a default
> option on boot up. As a result when the pc reboots, it shows just 'L I' and
> freezes. 
> 
> Please, tell me where did i go wrong and what i can do to make it right so it
> can give me the choice for either dos or linux at booting up...without
> freezing up on me of course?!
> 

The "LILO User's Guide" includes a nice section on the meaning of these
start messages:

http://www.yggdrasil.com/bible/lilo/user/node68.html#SECTION00620000000000000000

As far as I remember, if it gets stuck at the LI prompt it is usually due
to a problem with the disk geometry.  


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