Re: Lilo and MBR

["Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@ccs.neu.edu>]

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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote:

> Following up to my prevous mail is the lilo or mbr shipped with Debian 2 faulty
> ?  When trying to boot from hda3 (hda1 is win98, hda2 is swap) it just says
> loading Linux .... the reboots. It never gets to vmlinuz. This is like what
> happens when it cant find vmlinuz when you forget to run lilo. it boots fine
> off the CD with "rescue root=/dev/hda3" and RedHat 5.1 works fine.

I didn't see your original mail, so I might not have all the facts.
However, your problem actually looks a lot like a kernel problem that
shows up on some motherboards based on the Intel TX chipset.  If that's
what you have, then you might need to try a more recent kernel, like
2.0.36.

You should check the kernel mailing list archives for more details.  I
remember this problem being discussed around the beginning of this year.

noah


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