lilo gets stuck on LI..... but will boot with floppy? help please

[BigCletus]

I posted a previous post about the problem I am having with my system. I have 2 ata100/66 drives attatched to a promise controller card and I was able to get linux installed by specifing I/O addresses for the drives at the initial lilo boot prompt from the RH install.

I setup linux to boot from the root partion, not the mbr (tried both ways and neither worked) that way I can boot linux from NT's boot loader menu. It only gets as far as LI when lilo tries to boot. I can get it to boot if I use a boot floppy that was created when I installed everything, but I still have to specify the hd's hex addresses every time or I get a kernel panic. What am I doing wrong??? Any help is greatly appreciated.

[SUOrangeman]

Even though the I/O parameters were entered when you installed the OS, it does NOT mean that those parameters made it your /etc/lilo.conf. Check that file to make sure those parameters are in there. Rerun lilo to update the boot sector.

You can also do a 'man lilo' to get info on your specific 'LI' error code.

-SUO

[BigCletus]

SUOrangeman, thanks for the help. Actually, the I/O addresses are in an append line in my lilo.conf on the hd. When I type "man lilo" i get "no manual entry for lilo". I could have sworn it used to work.

I think what is most interesting is when i start fdisk, I get a message immediately that says: "The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1247. There is nothing wrong with that , but this is larger than 1024 and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g.. old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs"

I have red hat 7.0, so wouldn't that include a recent enough version of lilo to be able to handle this? thanks again.