Re: LILO woes.

[Joost Kooij <kooij@mpn.cp.philips.com>]

On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Nathan C. Burnett wrote:

> I have a non-fatal albeit annoying problem.  I'm running debian 1.3 and I
> absolutly cannot get LILO to work properly.  When the machine starts to
> boot the 'LI' shows up the the machine locks (have to use the reset button
> ctrl-alt-del doesn't work).  The LILO is version 19.  
> 
> I'm running a Cyrix 6x86MX, with a 2.1 GB samsung (I think) HD on a
> Matsonic MS-5120 motherboard, which incidentally came with a really weak
> manual so I don't know what IDE chipset it uses...
> 
> When I had RedHat 5 installed on this machine LILO 20 worked fine.
> 
> 
> My lilo.conf looks like:
> 
> 
> boot=/dev/hda1
> root=/dev/hda1
> compact
> install=/boot/boot.b
> map=/boot/map
> vga=normal
> prompt
> timeout = 50
> 
> image=/vmlinuz
>    label=Linux
>    read-only
> image=/vmlinuz.old
>    label=old
>    read-only
> 
> 
> Any ideas?

Try putting "linear" in. My machine here (a Digital Venturis FX 5166)
wouldn't boot until I did that (it barfed: LI01010101010101010101010....) 

I also have "compact" commented out, but I can't recall if I did that on
purpose. You may want to experiment with that. Also, there's quite an
exhaustive explanation of lilo's output in case of problems in the lilo
documentation that you can find in /usr/doc/lilo.

Cheers,


Joost


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