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Weird lilo problem



I installed debian Woody on my desktop machine with the install cd's default bf24 kernel (it is the kernel installed if you choose to install a 2.4 kernel) and reiserfs, and installed lilo with graphical menu into my boot record. Everything was ok, untill i changed the kernel to 2.4.18-686 (i used apt-get for that). What happened then was that when i run lilo everything seems ok, but on the next boot it hangs.

Where i should see the boot menu i get a
lilo: L4L4L4L4L4L4L4L4L4L4L4L

and it loops the L4 thing untill i hit the reset button on my machine. I normally get out of the situation by booting from cd and rescuing the bf24 kernel and when i rerun lilo on that kernel it starts working, next time i boot everything is normal.

I have compiled several kernels and none of them worked, i allways had to do the rescue bf24 manouver. When compiling a kernel i have allways included support for reiserfs and all different sorts of partitions.

Can anyone tell me where to look for a solution to the problem?



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