Obscure LILO problem, 1-5 minute LILO delay upon bootup.
Hi,
I am running Debian Sarge and previously migrated my root drive from a
8.4GB to a 40GB then to a 61.4GB now to a 250GB disk.
I always use tar to transfer one file system to the other and then chroot,
edit lilo and fstab and then re-run lilo.
For the:
8.4GB -> 40GB
40GB -> 60GB
I never had any issue.
However, with the 60GB -> 250GB drive, I did everything the same and at
the LILO prompt or "LIL" I should say, it sits there for about 1-5 minutes
and then says Loading Linux... BIOS something for about another 60 seconds
and THEN finally loads. Does anyone know what is up with this 5-6 minute
delay to load Linux?
All drives have been on the same promise controller, ATA/133, which has 48
bit addressing so there is no issue with the drive size being > 128GB.
Also, the /boot is the first 128MB of the drive, then swap, then root.
I have also tried adding lba32 to lilo.conf && re-running lilo but this
made no difference.
Anyone have any suggestions?
I am not sure what else to try at this point.
Maybe linear addressing?
Thanks!
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