Lilo troubles

[dchidelf]

After compiling a new kernel, at boot I received
LILO: Loading Linux.......................
and it just sat there...
I was going to boot back to my old kernel, but I then realized it wasn't allowing me to type anything at the LILO prompt. It loaded the new kernel without a delay. I tried several times, but lilo wasn't waiting for input.
I don't remember what I did anymore (I was trying to revert to the old kernel booting from a CD) ...but now I only get the LI output...

Booting from a CD now I can't run lilo I get the error
Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0102

I have an IDE drive that was never a problem with lilo before...I even added drive information to lilo.conf (sectors, heads, etc) but I still get the error...

Because I'm booting with a CD I mount hda at /mnt so I run
lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
could this be part of the problem?

Please help...

[PLBlaze]

After you've compiled the kernel have you added the new kernel path to your /etc/lilo.conf?Have you updated lilo by running /sbin/lilo -v?Maybe try posting your lilo.conf here.Hope this helps.

[dchidelf]

The lilo.conf file included both the old and new kernel images and I ran lilo.

I got a little further now...
I installed a floppy drive and was able to boot from that and load the new kernel...and the old kernel, but booting from hda I still only get LI ... I am going to try a few things because now lilo works without errors. it just doesn't want to load anything. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[dchidelf]

Sorry, I'm just dumb...

Lilo was installed on the MBR I hadn't realized and I was continuously updating the boot sector on hda1 rather than hda...

it works now...

my faux pas