lilo cycling???

[foxhound]

I am running RH7.1 and after the fresh install lilo is not working. After choosing linux from the menu, it loads 1 or 2 lines and goes back to the menu. I ended up have to boot with floppy to see what's with lilo.conf. I then realised that any changes i made to lilo is not reflected. i changed the timeout, and it isn't changed. it's as if there's 2 lilo running. any ideas? i have intalled lilo not in the mbr but in the partition with linux. thank you

[Malakin]

When you make changes to lilo.conf you have to run "lilo" for the changes to take effect.

[foxhound]

I ran lilo again and again, still no change

[bdg1983]

If you've installed lilo in the Linux partition and not the mbr, then how are you booting? Have you set that partition as active or are you using something else as the main bootloader?

[omicron]

I'm using the win2k bootloader, from there i can choose win2k, win98 and linux, which is quite nice, the only prob is that when i choose linux, it goes to the lilo graphic menu, and it jsut keeps cycling from there onwards :(

[Sidey]

It looks like the win2k bootloader is using an old version of the boot record. I had a similar setup, booting Linux from the win2k boot loader. I did this by stripping(?) the boot record from the floppy to a file. The win2k bootloader then pointed to this file. So if i reinstalled lilo it would have no effect. You may have to re-create this file if this is the kind of setup you have.

To check that lilo actually works, try installing it to a floppy, and booting off that.

Then again, Ive never used redhat so none of this may apply to you.

hope it helps, rich