Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-10 Thread Dan Egli
LI usually indicates boot conflicts. Are you booting beyond the 1024 cylinder count? Or are you booting on the 3rd (or higher) device? Those are common causes. On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Rhugga wrote: > > We just installed several RH 7.2 machines and a handfull of them have > the following problem:

Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-09 Thread Edward Dekkers
> Master Boot Record (MBR) Thanks for the posts Thomas. Very informative. Cleared up my confusion after I started to think about what I wrote after sending the first mail. So I understand now in short that FDISK /MBR does not touch the partition table part of the MBR, but the Partition table

RE: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-09 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
ary, Extended and Logical Partitions -Original Message- From: Edward Dekkers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 7:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing > Isn't it the MBR that contains the partition info?

RE: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-09 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
2 and 10 of Advanced MS-DOS Programming by Ray Duncan, and article 3 of The MS-DOS Encyclopedia , both published by Microsoft Press. -Original Message- From: Edward Dekkers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 7:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: System is ha

Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-08 Thread Edward Dekkers
> Isn't it the MBR that contains the partition info? I doubt it. when you re-write the MBR, you don't lose your partitions? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-08 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Isn't it the MBR that contains the partition info? -Original Message- From: ABrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 8:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:05:31 -0500 "Burke

Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-07 Thread ABrady
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:05:31 -0500 "Burke, Thomas G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > When the system comes up wit just "LI", it is a problem with the > master boot record (MBR) of the machine. Generally speaking, this > only happens on a dual boot machine. It happens because MS Windows > likes t

Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-07 Thread Mike Watson
> -Original Message- > From: Rhugga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 3:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing > > We just installed several RH 7.2 machines and a handfull of them have

RE: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-07 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
sure lilo.conf is as it should be and the run /sbin/lilo. I don't know if this works with the newer OS's, as I haven't made a dual boot machine since Win95 -Original Message- From: Rhugga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-03 Thread Thierry ITTY
>> Silly question: Have you seen if the BIOS configuration is _exactly_ the same in the boxes that work and the ones that don't? >> Hope this helps > >Someone please explain this. I removed this entry from lilo.conf: >serial=0,9600n8 > >I have 250 nodes all with the same hardware, same image, same

Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-03 Thread Rhugga
> > Silly question: Have you seen if the BIOS configuration is _exactly_ the same in the >boxes that work and the ones that don't? > > Hope this helps > > > Francisco > > Someone please explain this. I removed this entry from lilo.conf: serial=0,9600n8 I have 250 nodes all with the same h

RE: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-03 Thread Brad Bonkoski
Title: RE: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing 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 t

Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-03 Thread Rhugga
ot recall. a search on google might be in order. > > i hope in some way this helps. > eric > > - Original Message - > From: "Rhugga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 2:04 PM > Subject: [RHL]

Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-03 Thread eric clover
this helps. eric - Original Message - From: "Rhugga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 2:04 PM Subject: [RHL] System is hanging with 'LI' only showing We just installed several RH 7.2 machines and a handfull of t

Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-03 Thread Francisco Neira
Hi, Maybe this helps http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/82/1999/4/0/1651603/ Regards, Francisco ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-03 Thread steve
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

System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-03 Thread Rhugga
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 runn