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Re: machine hangs at boot



On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 11:08:21PM -0500, Azog wrote:
> > Please post your lilo.conf and your partition table.
> hda: FUJITSU MPB3064ATU, 6187MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=788/255/63, UDMA 
> lilo.conf:
> boot = /dev/hda2
> delay = 40
> compact
> vga = normal
> root = /dev/hda2
> read-only
> prompt
> image = /vmlinuz-2.1.119
>      label = new
> image = /vmlinuz-2.1.117
>      label = linux
> 
> Partition Table(from fdisk):
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 788 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
>    /dev/hda1            1        1       33   265041   82  Linux swap
>    /dev/hda2   *       34       34      224  1534207+  83  Linux native
>    /dev/hda3          225      225      355  1052257+  83  Linux native
>    /dev/hda4          356      356      788  3478072+  83  Linux native
Lilo is installed on the 2nd partition and this is the active one, looks ok.
The only reason I could think of is that the MBR is damaged/not installed.
If you have a DOS Bootdisk (>4.0) try starting from it and
give the command
    fdisk/mbr
Then reboot again.

Nils

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