Re: booting is very difficult
check the Bootdisk-HOWTO-12.html for specific LILO error codes.
Rory O'Connor wrote:
>
> i just re-built my debian system from the disk image, and i'm having the
> same problem i had before i rebuilt it -- it hangs at "LI" when trying to
> boot from the hard disk. I can boot from the emergency floppy just fine
> though.
>
> Apparantly it's complaining that there is no active boot partition, but it
> states quite clearly in the lilo.conf file that boot=/dev/hda1 (and yes, i
> did re-run lilo just to be sure).
>
> I also made sure that cfdisk had /dev/hda1 flagged as "boot". the disk
> doesn't appear to be bad because the other partitions are working fine. i
> noticed that /dev/hda1 wasn't being mounted in fstab, but obviously it would
> need to be accessed earlier. the cfdisk info is:
>
> hda1 boot primary linux ext2 8.23mb
>
> does it have anything to do with how lilo was installed on the system? any
> help appreciated!
>
> thanks,
>
> rory
>
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