lilo boot issue

[nogoer]

I had RH6.2 installed on an old dell latitude 166. When i upgraded to 7.1 and the new kernal, then ran lilo and then rebotted lilo hung. All i get is L- or LI-. I have not gotten any 1024 cyl errors or anyhting like that and 6.2 with the old kernal would boot fine everytime. Now the only way to boot is with a boot disk.

[Angel of Death]

Could be some subliminal problems there.

[godot]

you installed lilo to /dev/hda1 instead of the master boot record /dev/hda

i've done that before too, not a big deal

reinstall and try again.

[nogoer]

I have tried it in both places, it does not seem to matter where i install lilo to it does not find the secondary boot sequence.

[bdg1983]

Must be something wrong in /etc/lilo.conf. Verify line by line, make any modifications and rerun /sbin/lilo.

Post your lilo.conf and partition setup if you like and we can try to find the problem.

[slapNUT]

Try putting
lba32
in the global section (the first section) of your lilo.conf file.

[nogoer]

That lba thing worked perfect, its a shame something os little could cause such a big problem

[Strike]

Originally posted by nogoer:
<STRONG>That lba thing worked perfect, its a shame something os little could cause such a big problem</STRONG>
Change a byte from the middle of KERNEL32.DLL and try and run Windows off of it :)

Every little bitty thing makes a difference.

[ronmon]

The computer knows only what you tell it. They are not good at reasoning or guessing your intentions. You must be very specific and mean what you say. Otherwise... :eek: