RE: booting is very difficult
This generally means that lilo is failing to load the second stage (or was
it first stage?) bootloader. Very commonly this happens if you change the
device ordering and your boot device is not the same as it was before. You
basically need to re-lilo the drive with the correct info.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [mailto:dingo@texoma.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:47 PM
> To: Debian-User
> Subject: Re: booting is very difficult
>
>
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Rory O'Connor wrote:
>
> RO> i just re-built my debian system from the disk image, and
> i'm having the
> RO> same problem i had before i rebuilt it -- it hangs at
> "LI" when trying to
> RO> boot from the hard disk. I can boot from the emergency
> floppy just fine
> RO> though.
>
> the only 2 times i saw lilo hang on LI was when i put faster
> cpu in my machine
> and accidentaly overclocked it, and the second time was when
> the first of the
> two sdram chips in the machine was bad, hope this helps.
>
> Dingo.
>
>
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