you should just be able to boot using a rescue CD-Rom or floppy, mount the root partition of the hard drive and then do a 'chroot' on it and rerun '/sbin/lilo'
it is typically a mismatch between the MBR and the Motherboard, i.e. you might get this problem when you hook up an old hard drive with a Linux filesystem into a new computer.
-Brad
> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing
>
>
> I had the same problem - still unresolved as to cause
> I ended up having to wipe my HDD and do a fresh install of
> 7.1 ... and am now
> having troubles updating packages and erratta.
> Currently have RH 7.1, kernel 2.4.2 running but RHN update
> agent keeps
> looking for newer versions of certain files and upon not
> finding them sends a
> 'file not found" error and aborts the upgrade.
>
> please let the list know if you find a solution.
> thanks
>
> ps ... my machine was setup using Intel boot agent (v2.2)
> instead of LILO -
> could this be part of the problem??
>
> Steve
>
> n Thursday 03 January 2002 03:04 pm, you wrote:
> > We just installed several RH 7.2 machines and a handfull of
> them have
> > the following problem:
> >
> > When the system boots it hangs when LILO is supposed to
> appear. All we
> > see is 'LI' and then nothing.
> >
> > I tried using a dos boot disk with 'fdisk /mbr'
> > I then tried booting from a RH 7.2 boot disk and running
> lilo again but
> > it still hangs.
> >
> > We did about 250 nodes and the same image was used for all,
> we have maybe
> > 7-8 that have this problem.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > CC
> >
> >
> >
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