LILO stopps at L

[Max Powers]

when i boot with no bootdisk LILO puts 'L' on the screen and then stopps. im dualbooting RH 7.1 and Win98. i know ive seen this problem before but it would be alot easier to post a new topic than search through 540 pages. any suggesstions? :)

[pbharris]

are you on a UDMA controller?

[Max Powers]

im pretty sure i am, its a brand new mobo. ill check next time i boot, though

[Max Powers]

yes, it is UDMA, but it doesnt work either way.

no one can help? i want to get onto windows, and i cant right now... :\

[ 27 August 2001: Message edited by: Max Powers ]

[bluesky]

I had that L.. before and I know how you feel. But I can't help. I know just a place that you may get some help. Post your question(s) in the "all things unix" of this link:
http://www.dslreports.com/

[bdg1983]

What's wrong with us here at LNO?

To get Windows to boot, just try one of the many posts on fdisk. Here's one of them. (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=013582)

If you post a little more info on your setup/partitions, I'm sure someone can help.

[bdg1983]

Originally posted by Max Powers:
<STRONG>
no one can help? i want to get onto windows, and i cant right now... :\
Powers ]</STRONG>

We usually can help, but you have to supply a little more info for us to do so. It's hard to troubleshoot a problem with just

Redhat 7.1
Win98
UDMA

Where did you install Lilo? mbr or root/boot partition?

Please tell us so we can help you.

[Chic Rogers]

I had mine for a while so it would stop at "LI" and do nothing. Turns out that LILO can't find Linux on a second hard drive. Are you running two hard drives? I think you have to rewrite you master boot record to get into Windows, thats what I did anyway. Use your Windows boot floppy, and either copy msdos.sys and io.sys to your C: (assuming thats where Windows is) or type: fdisk /MBR. You'll have to use your Linux boot disk to get Linux this way. Installing GRUB as the bootloader solved the problem, BTW.

[Max Powers]

well, im on windows now. i just fdisk'd the mbr and will use the boot disk if i wanna get to linux :)

oh, and windows is installed on a 30gb drive and linux is on a 20gb partitioned for 2 9.5gig drives for / and /home and a 1gig swap

[ 27 August 2001: Message edited by: Max Powers ]

[Mr.Shifty]

first off u didnt give us enough info seems we asked mre questions than you did
a hardware set up is important to trouble shooting lilo for example
1. what type of scsi or raid controler card are you useing if any
2 how many harddrives do you have 1? 2? 4?

secondly partition setup
where is /
ect

my point is posting full detailed info about a problem usally results in a faster responce

but to attempt to answer

IF your on 2 hard drives / is on the second in the front and u installed lilo in the mbr (mysetup)

and u find lilo hanging toss in the boot disk
boot linux

open your lilo.conf normally found in /etc/lilo.conf
you can do this quickly by just telling emacs what file to open on run
emacs &lt;filename&gt;
put lba32 in your lilo.conf

run lilo

reboot

this fixed my problem but i belive that only applies to a dual hard drive boot yes no?

hope it helps good luck :)

[Max Powers]

well, i did say how my partitions were set up, but ill try what you said. thanks :)

[Mr.Shifty]

:)

[The Ghost Of Ille Pugil]

also, try using the option "linear" as well, I had to do that with my 20gb hard drive to make lilo work.