Boot Hangs on New Install
I just installed Debian 1.1 last night (overwriting my old Slackware
install). I got through the smoke-test (ie, reboot), and everything
seemed fairly okay (got a couple warnings about post?-install scripts
not being found). I installed my packages, setup X (my mouse won't
work ;-), user accounts, etc.
I then went to reboot. I got:
LILO: Loading Linux
And that's it. No dots. Nothing. But my disk light stayed on. So I
decided to wait a bit. Still nothing. So I rebooted with my custom
floppy. Came up fine.
My root disk (/) is hda1, set as bootable. It's about 350MB (is this
a problem?). The rest of this disk went to a 64MB swap. There is
another disk (hdb) mounted on `/archive'.
I didn't try just using `vmlinux' instead of `vmlinuz' (I'd have to
take the `compact' out of `lilo.conf', right?). I did compile and
install a new kernel, but it didn't help.
Does anyone have any idea what could have gone wrong? I've had my old
Linux install working for ~3years. Never a problem like this.
Thanks for any help.
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Kevin K. Lewis | My opinions may be unreasonable
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