LI on boot....

[Jumish]

I am trying to install Redhat 7.0 on a separate partition on my system. I have a 30 GB FAT32 partition for Win98 and have a 5 GB linux partition. Redhat installs with no errors, but when I reboot after the install, the system hangs after POST and just says "LI". Help!
:confused:
Thanks in advance
-Jumish-

ASUS A7V
Duron 800 Mhz
Voodoo3 2000 pci
Maxtor HD
SB Live Value
Davicom NIC

[Tyr-7BE]

This was brought up not too long ago. Try a forum search and see if you can find a solution.

[MBMarduk]

You're prolly WAAY over the 1024 cylinder limit.
You'll need to upgrade LILO to atleast 21.5.

[Jumish]

Forgive my greenness, but how would one go about doing that since I can't boot anything with Redhat installed?

[MBMarduk]

Well, if I'm correct RH is very dumb to install itself where it did.

If I'm wrong....Well I'm wrong..

Lesee...30GB for Windblows, 5GB for Linux...
Are these 2 the ONLY 2 on there?

If so, you'll have to make a very small partition (like 10MB) *BEFORE* the 1024th cylinder on that HDD and put the "/boot" directory on that partition.
That way LILO can easily access the kernel there and then mount "/" (your ROOT account)

Use something like Partition Magic for that, since you'll prolly be "splitting" your Windohs partition.
Ohh...I guess you also have SWAP, right?


Like this (just an example):
/dev/hda1: 23% Windloads C:
/dev/hda5: 0.28% /boot
/dev/hda6:xxxxx swap
/dev/hda7:xxxxx /
/dev/hda8:xxxxx Windloads D:

The percentages used are just a guess, 'cuz the 1024th cylinder lies (usually) around 8 to 9GB depanding on the amount of platters in your HDD.

-Mike

[bdg1983]

Thanks MBMarduk... I've had my fill of that question the last few days.

Not even going to suggest that Jumish read the NHF on 'Overcoming Lilo Problems'.